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...technique of broadcasting "scrambled" signals that form a picture only when unscrambled by a special device attached to the receiving set. Telemeter Corp., 54% owned by Paramount Pictures, uses a coin box hitched to the TV set, which unscrambles the picture when the proper amount of money is inserted. Zenith Radio Corp.'s Phonevision, now awaiting an FCC decision, originally used a special unscrambling signal transmitted to the set via a telephone-line attachment, and depended on the phone company to do the billing. But now Phonevision has several alternate methods. One uses the coin box; another uses...
Last year, after two other members of the international set had accused him of seducing their wives, 44-year-old Rubi was at the very zenith of his career. During July, in Deauville, he met Barbara. By now, of course, she had heard of him and his accomplishments. He, of course, had heard of her and her enormous for tune. "He told me," she explained, "that he loved me. But he doesn't remember. He never asked me to marry him then. He just told me he loved me, but I didn't believe him. I have loved...
...nonsense ascribed to me-that "most men ought to die at 35"-was concocted by a young reporter...who...took a line from one page of the Mansions, which quoted Havelock Ellis as saying that men reach their (physical) zenith at 32, combined it with a whimsical quotation, several hundred pages later in the same book, to the effect that "men should die at their zenith," and then foisted upon me his brilliant synthesis...
...ultimate in cinematic realism by using a hemispherical screen and central projector (as in a planetarium), by using an annular lens (as sometimes used on submarine periscopes), which presents a doughnut-shaped picture to the eye (or camera) covering 360° around the horizon, and practically to the zenith. This picture, projected back through the same type of lens, would recreate the original scene; the camera could project downward from the center of the theater, and could include two such lenses in a polarized system on a common axis for 3-D; also the vibrating-prism system of Citizen Kane...
...Leverett family memoir heralds the appointment in a manner typical of the time: "In the zenith of his fame and popularity . . . Judge 'Leverett was elected to the presidency of Harvard College-the cherished seat of learning of the country and the pride and ornament of New England...