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Four 1,500-watt lights have been placed on poles around the ice. That isn't all that's necessary, however. What seems to be traditional New England weather has converted the Soldiers Field rink into a swimming pool. As a result the pipes have been turned off for the duration of the Indian summer...
Broadcasts from the world's mightiest radio transmitter will start from the Cascade Mountains northeast of Seattle this week by the U.S. Navy. RCA built the $14 million, 1,200,000-watt transmitter that can cut through signal-scrambling magnetic storms, reach any U.S. surface ship on earth...
Hockey practice will begin Monday. Four 1,500 watt lights will permit night skating and possibly night practice...
...then, the new $150,000 arena now being completed adjacent to Dillon Field House, will be put to its first formal use. Then, over 1800 gallons of cooled brine will speed through ten miles of pipe every minute, and eight sets of 6000-watt light fixtures will illumine a 200-by-35-foot playing surface...
Some of San Francisco's best financial brains are at work on the opera's board of directors. Among them: Utilities Executive Robert Watt Miller, Investment Banker Charles R. Blyth, Banker William W. Crocker, Broker Marco Hellman, Publisher (San Francisco Chronicle) George Cameron, Paper Magnate J. D. Zellerbach. These men have developed a practical method for handling annual deficits : holders of top-price season tickets (931 this year) pledge $50 each, get charged on a pro rata basis when the season's deficit is added up (last year: a nearly nominal $36,000). Cost of each year...