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...council of colleges has been enlarged by the inclusion of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. A non commercial educational broadcasting station has been set up to carry on and amplify the work already began. The new station, WGBH, has built a 25,000-watt frequency modulated transmitter in one room of the meteorological observatory on Great Blue Hill, and maintains studio in Symphony Hall, Boston...
Scottish-born Robert Watson-Watt was once a meteorologist in Britain's weather bureau. His interest at the time was thunderstorms, and he worked out a radio device to track their movements at great distances. Little by little, he learned how to track other things in the air besides thunderstorms...
...World War II approached, Watson-Watt's "radiolocation," now sponsored by the Air Ministry, became a top military secret. British firms were given orders to make peculiar parts for some mysterious device. When German bombers attacked Britain, the bombers found the island ringed with radar eyes that picked up the planes, tracked them accurately, and told the R.A.F.'s intercepters just where to find them. Without Watson-Watt's radar, the Air Battle of Britain might have been the start of an invasion and a quick German victory...
Last week Watson-Watt, now "Sir Robert," already knighted as one of the architects of victory in the Battle of Britain, got another reward: ?50,000 ($140,000), tax free, from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. Other British contributors to the development of radar shared ?37,950. British scientists agreed that the decision was a fair one. It had been reached after long deliberation by a seven-man commission of lawyers, scientists and businessmen, presided over by Lord Justice Cohen, Lord of Appeal...
Harmless Crackpot? Then Houston Lawyer-Industrialist Roy Hofheinz, 39, who had opened a 50,000-watt radio station, KSOX, in Harlingen, joined the attack on Hoiles in an all-out crusade over the air. His station also began taking ads away from the Hoiles papers. Partly because he was pinched by this competition, and partly because they disagreed with him, Hoiles fired the three editors who had stayed on when he bought the papers...