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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chafee is also listening to the noise an electric wire makes when it is heated. The hot molecules vibrate faster and make strange sounds over radios...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Physicists Twirl Atoms, Aim Radio | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...phone call to her mother in Hollywood was Norma's last desperate hope. But Emory was unmoved. Into the telephone, he said: "I'm sorry, Mother, for what I'm about to do. Please forgive me." Over the wire leading into the Manhattan apartment she had never seen, Mrs. Thomas heard her daughter scream, and the scream broken by the sharp sound of shouts and shots. In Hollywood, Mrs. Thomas fainted. When she came to, she hurriedly telephoned for help from the New York police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Broken Connection | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Devil in the Flesh is a profoundly moving film because it is profoundly honest. With an ear for dialogue as accurate and intimate as a wire recorder in a bedroom, Writers Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost (who also collaborated on Symphonie Pastorale) have provided a script that is at once ruthless, compassionate and quietly penetrating. Working in the same low natural key, Director Claude Autant Lara has produced an extraordinary fluoroscopic effect of life-in-depth. The lovers' moments of clandestine passion (as frank as any that have recently reached the screen), their childish gaiety, their anguish and fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: French Import | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...show up and Printing Foreman Young tried his hand at an editorial. He did so well that he was hired as associate editor. In 1910, Young took over the Guide and turned it into a general newspaper for Negroes. Now it has 80 employees, an International News Service wire and good Washington coverage from the National Negro Press Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Three in a Row | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

None of this information has been released by the tight-lipped Navy, but the latest Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent Office (sold to all askers for $17.50 per year) contains a fair description, between an automatic arc starter and a wire cheese slicer, of U.S. Patent 2,461,797, Zwicky's underwater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Underwater Jet | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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