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...French government in 1815 because he opposed Napoleon's return from Elba. Then he turned his fertile, inventive brain to the problem of getting lighthouses to give more light. Little recognized in his short (1788-1827) life, Fresnel (pronounced Fray-nell) wrought an optical revolution and indirectly saved untold lives by junking the mirrors on which lighthouses had long depended, instead put the light source inside a cylindrical lens with multiple-refracting bands at top and bottom. The resulting Fresnel lens (commonly pronounced Frez-nel) still has many maritime uses, is on sale by most ship chandlers...
...defiantly optimistic in public, but privately worried. CBS apparently believes that there is no use in bucking TV in the evening with any strong radio competition; it fills the sunny hours unimaginatively with soap opera and such housewife pacifiers as Arthur Godfrey and Art Linkletter. At ABC, which dropped untold thousands in network radio last year, gloom is officially repressed. But one network bigwig groaned last week: "Network radio is just a ghost. They're doing horseradish. All we're doing is keeping the lines...
...false alarm that he will be there any minute. They know better, do not expect him until 6 p.m. when he usually begins the day's work, winding up with his office callers about midnight. No cheapskate, he hands out $50,000 a year to charities, spends untold thousands on legal advice...
Serving time in Dartmoor Prison, Hume was frequently visited by Pic Assistant Editor Fred Redman, who suspected there was a bigger story still untold?" Redman was right. After leaving Dartmoor in February, Hume agreed to give the Pic a full confession. Pic Reporter Victor Sims took Hume to a country hotel overlooking the Thames estuary where the body was dropped. Hume lay on a bed, stared up at the ceiling, and calmly described how he killed and chopped up Setty. Recalls Sims: "It was the most terrifyingly bloody day of my life...
...strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race...