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...transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument had three main elements: 1) a short-wave sender-receiver which could bounce back a beam, through clouds, smoke or rain, from a small object (e.g., a plane or ship) as much as 130 mi. away, 2) a vane to determine the object's direction, 3) sensitive electronic tubes to measure the object's distance by timing the echoed beam, which travels with the speed of light - 186,000 mi. a second...
...GOPresidential weather vane veered minutely but perhaps significantly last week. The puff of wind came from Wisconsin, whose April 4 primaries will be the first solid test of Wendell Willkie's 1944 popularity with the party rank & file. Two prominent candidates for places as Dewey delegates to the Republican convention declared themselves fed up with waiting for the New York governor to say yes or no, shifted their candidacies to the Willkie slate...
...chicken. When I get bigger, I shall be a fowl. When I am bigger still, I shall be a cock." Heimer's words fit him to a startling degree: "[Arpad's] a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane-one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...
Arpad, something of a neurotic himself, has whipped up a few more bits of weather information. . . . No thunderstorms tomorrow. Also no sleet, hail, eclipses or earthquakes. First showing of the feature picture at 12:31. . . ." Arpad was born in 1937 (for a few weeks he was called "Eggo - the Vane Bird") when the World-Telegram wanted to dress up Rewriteman H. Allen Smith's wacky weather stories (example: "Workers, arise! This would be a nice day to have off!"). Arpad's pen-&-ink father is 46-year-old Bill Pause (real name: Pause-wang), a greying, soft-spoken...
...finest trait is his humanness. Pause and bean-lean Rewriteman Mel Heimer, 28, who now writes the Arpad stories, have given their bird a personality as individual as Donald Duck's. Says Heimer: "He's a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane -one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...