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...that all TV sets (except Zenith's) are in danger of becoming obsolete. Zenith's reasoning: any day now, the Federal Communications Commission may license Ultra High Frequencies* for TV transmission. McDonald claimed that Zenith is the only television receiver equipped with "a specially designed, built-in turret tuner" with "provision" for picking...
...carrier will be the longest (1,090 ft.), and the biggest (65,000 tons) naval vessel afloat, and flat as a flounder. To reduce the ship's visibility and provide extra deck space, the lofty island of wartime U.S. carriers will be shrunk to two turret-like structures which telescope below deck level when not in use. The carrier's gill-like funnels are flush with the armored flight deck; it will have four catapults to fling its planes into the air. Like the 45,000-ton Midway-class carriers, it will be too wide...
Sitting behind a Connecticut lunch-wagon counter and listening to the world's news, Stephen J. Supina decided that what the United Nations needed was a nudge. Supina, who had been a turret gunner in the war, did not write a letter to the papers. Last week he hired a tiny red and yellow Aeronca plane, drew a circle around Lake Success on his map, wrapped 150 feet of wire around his middle and took...
...policeman pronounced a diagnosis that told at least as much about the postwar world as it did about the turret gunner. "Supina," said the cop, "is suffering from hallucinations of world peace...
...Germany he became known as "the mad Kokoschka," but he also acquired a following that regarded him as a genius and one of the most brilliant of the expressionists. His ambitious, spectacular townscapes, painted from rooftops and turret windows, and signed "O.K.," found their way into museums all over Europe. He himself found his way into the homes of nobles and notables, doing portraits. Among his sitters: Thomas Masaryk, whom Kokoschka adored: "A dried, shriveled apple with a million wrinkles," he called him, "[but] a real aristocrat...