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WHRB will start its broadcasting this year with a new transmitter carrying more than three times the power of its predecessor. The 100 watt machine, combined with a new United Press teletype and the remodeling of WHRB's Dudley Hall studios is "intended for better coverage and better quality of sound," according to William R. Lamb '52, station technical director...
...laboratory of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion last week, young (28) Dr. Louis F. Michalak blacked the foreheads of two human guinea pigs with India ink to make the skin more heat-absorbent. The doctor tested their "pain threshold" with the heat from a 1,000-watt lamp. After taking their normal readings, Dr. Michalek reached for a pain-killing drug to inject. He meant to give them Demerol (safe dose: 100 milligrams). Then he would repeat the test on a third volunteer and himself, using methadon (safe dose: 10 milligrams). More pain readings were to follow...
Within a short time Hampton's new friendship began to pay off for the Wireless Club. Over the last few months, the alumnus gave the club two complete transmitters (one 300 watt and the other 400), a receiver, and other necessary equipment. The main problem at this point was where...
Highbrow Station For more than a year tiny, 550-watt Station KPFA had been fighting a losing game. Its highbrow FM programs were a big hit with a limited audience in Berkeley, home of the University of California. But without sponsors or commercials it had trouble making ends meet on the $10-a-year subscription fees paid by 300 of its listeners. Last August KPFA finally closed the doors of its two-studio station, regretfully fired its underpaid seven-man staff...
...John B. Condliffe, Composers Darius Milhaud and Roger Sessions became KPFA sponsors. Dr. J. Raymond Cope, minister of Berkeley's First Unitarian Church, enrolled 250 volunteer fundraisers, who collected a total of $23,000 in contributions. And Raytheon Manufacturing Co. donated the components of a new 16,100-watt transmitter which can send an FM signal throughout the whole San Francisco Bay area...