Word: wirephotoed
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Recoil with a vengeance came in the 50 yard sprint, an ominous portent for the final relay outcome. The Green's Howe with first, and Thalheimer taking third, sandwiched Bill MacVicker who made it a wirephoto finish largely on the strength of his turns...
Hogan facsimile recorders can be plugged into any FM radio. They can also be used on standard sets, with slower reception. The transmission is similar to wirephoto. Copy for broadcast is fastened to a revolving cylinder. An electric eye records the varying lightwaves reflected by the different shades of black, converts them into sound signals for broadcasting. Tuned to the proper frequency, receiving sets pick up these signals, reconvert them to electrical impulses which bombard a roll of paper. The result: the chemically treated paper develops an impression much as a photoprint reacts from light waves. Fine type, action pictures...
There were messages of congratulation from home, an autographed wirephoto from his wife, his back pay, summer khaki uniforms to replace his worn clothing, good food, and the stirring atmosphere of a U.S. Army post. And, better than all these, he found that his country remembered him with sympathy and pride...
...newest thing in newspapers is a Buck Rogerish fantasy come true. It is a four-page, pictureless, adless New York Times - containing much of the News That's Fit to Print, distilled from the Times' s regular 32 to 40 pages. It crosses the country by wirephoto, at the speed of 20 minutes a half page, and delegates to the San Francisco conference read it at breakfast...
...paper was held up because a motorcycle messenger, rushing the wire-photos to the printers in Richmond, Calif., was arrested for speeding - and spent part of the night in jail. There have been com- petitive squawks: the San Francisco Chronicle protested the Times's use of A.P. wirephoto for the Times's private benefit. Facsimile also has posed a leading question: what good is an expensive local A.P. franchise if other publishers with A.P. news can muscle in from afar? (While making up its mind about these issues, the A.P. let the Times go ahead with its experiment...