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...only 7½ hours daily and transmitted a comparatively weak, 7,500-watt signal. Last week RFE began to speak with a more powerful voice, nearly three times stronger than any medium-wave transmitter in the U.S.: a new, 135,000-watt station near Munich. The station, paid for by contributions of 16,000,000 Americans, will broadcast to Czechoslovakia for 11½ hours a day. In its first broadcast, Ferdinand Peroutka, exiled Czech parliamentarian and writer who will run the station, told his countrymen: "We know how much effort the Communists stake on reforming your souls . . , But we also...
Other committee heads elected were: Curricular, Natalie Dosick '52; Library, Margaret Fitzgerald '52; Orientation, Phebo Crampton '52; Publicity, Elizabeth Fleischner '54 and Ruth Jacobson '52; Community Service, Mary Jane Wade '52 and Phyllis Watt '54; Health Center, Ellin Louria '52; Social, Rachel Mellinger '52; Student Employment, Pamela Huntsman-Trout '52. The new editor of the Red Book, the student handbook, is Gloria Wagstaff...
Routine acceptance by F.C.C. is expected by the Council, a non-profit educational group of six local colleges, including Harvard. The commercial 20,000-watt station will be set up on the site of the University's Blue Hills meteological observatory under plans drawn up by University and M.I.T. engineers...
WHRB decided to build the 90-watt transmitter because its 30-watt one is "just about gone." Originally designed to serve only the seven Houses, the old machine became overheated too quickly after the Yard, Graduate, and Business schools were added to the station's broadcasting range. Overheating ruined the tubes...
John Hersey scored one of the year's popular successes with The Wall, a fictional-documentary study of the extermination of Warsaw's Jews under Hitler. Though its reporting devices got in its way as a novel, The Watt's story mosaic gave it a strong cumulative impact. In The Town, Conrad Richter finished a trilogy of fine, craftsmanlike novels about the Ohio Country pioneers. The trilogy put Richter in the first rank of historical novelists, though it started no stampede to the bookshops by fans of the frigate-bustle-&-bosom school...