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Oh, what FUN-one of those, lovely new taxicobs with
a lot of big, wide windows 1
taking you to that famous restaurant in the heart of Mayfair. where are to be found wit beauty
elegance. etc., etc.
Clara 1-pou must fet me introduce Mr Bodom. Garamond--THE export on the cuneiform scientific. transactions of the BARLY Parsian period ! ! !
Now, with Ms. Pollits as PM
and the Dean of Canterburg as Home Secretary, these bourgeois_ orales would be liquidated.
Childbirth: A startling report
E
many
dio
THE
CHAPMAN PINCHER
COLUMN
The use of
tutalist BRIAN VESEYL FITZGERALD oppores this.
Fifteen-giono Vesey.- Fita- Gerald fashioned a woodpecker- sized head and benk
[out of to make the wood, and tried
More ly
which
VIDENCE that hun- use of the services of specialised dreds of British bables obstetricians than poorer people
more dependent on' midwives, tapping noiso by striking it overy year, and
against a tree frequented by more aro malmed, 3 ist difficult births has in- did not carry further than 30. instruments to the birds. The resulting sounds because doctors ará too creased during recent years, readily interfering
yards, with
the Scientists IAN SUTHERLAND wooden the
benk
dodnite natural process of and W. T. RUSSELL, who pro marks on the
frog, whi birth, was published recent pared the report do not claim on
while boughs woodpecker had ly by the British Medical these facts prove that undue sur "tapped" were unmarked. Association.
nical interference by doctors is Woodpeckers undoubtedly. killing babies.
peck holes in trees, but Vesgy- But they pointedly draw the FitzGerald and some fellow- attention of the medical profes- dissenters maintain that the ap evidence. And they show, that belig produced like other bird slon 'Lo tho
Indisputable parent tapping is really vocal, mortality from injury at birth is Bolsos, by vibrations in the of Social higher stili in Amirlea where throat.
the use of instruments is even
Ave-minuta --- binocular more widespread;
watch on a great spotted wood- pecker. convinced MO Odd spot of the report is the whatever may happen fact that the "Blackest" coun- wooden hammers, woodpeckers its for general infant mortality, make their topping mechanically jiko Lancashire, Yorkshire and with their beaks.
Three startlingly signi- fleant facts have been es- tablished by research car- ried out at Oxford's Instituto Medicine:-
While Britain's total infant- mortality rate has sleudity- declined during the last 25 years, deaths due to Injury at birth have increased,
2 The death rate from injury BL birth 15 substantially higher among better-off familics, who presumably mako fuller
RICHARD FINDLATER takes a behind-the-scenes
look at Britain's radio exhibition, and finds
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The spotlight at the exhibi- tion is on TV-and the demand for it is growing. But TV is still only a tiny section Britain's radio industry-which
REVOLUTIONS RADIOLYMPIA
Less adventurous models in changers clude battery-operated record
and gramophone sections in pull-out drawers, to save space.
Government departments_bave
The future'
Glamorgan have some of the
lowest figures for death caused -
by injury at birth.
like
that'
with
Pilots on ice
A BOFFIN, whose war-. Conversely countles Somerset. Oxfordshire War-
timo work was devising wickshire, and Suffolk with good equipments to koop high-flying. all-over infant mortality, records, plus warm, team me he wil aro "black spots" for injury-at- soon *be designing portable birth deaths.
'minlature refrigerators to keep puzzled them cool. Fster-than-sound
The scientists scom
by this anomaly. But in my view aircraft will get co hot from
I supports their case.
Those counties with the beat- equipped and best-staffed m.dicol services should put up
friction and other effects that pilots will be in danger, ot being cooked.
This "aerodynamic heating good all-round record through speeds at about 2,500 miles an may set a final limit on aircraft concentrated ante-natal child-health
and hour.. Above this speed heat- care, But if ing would be to intense that the mouern effelency encourages
оп which loo much assistance" in the aluminium alloys,
the plane designers depend, maternity ward they would would lose half their structural come off worst in deaths from strength. injury at birth.
*
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Ladder complex
THE
"psychological complex.
that una
Problem
STRANGE case AMERICAN SOCIO- *
of the "petrilled" puppy ADIOLYMPIA,
LOGISTS, investigating of Croydon supposts now rooms have been installed, so sure, and if you want to play and river launches. And Marcon! the Impact open, shows the that high fidelity reception can your favourite Donald
Peers have a special demonstration of family life, report, "Youngsters una modera
of television on modern dog is an suscepuble as. bodemonstrated. fallacy of short-term loud-spekers are a feature of a
-Improved accord in a storm at sen there's its USO In news-gathering so
WOZDIRIL" "wo ̈that Garrard radiogram which that a reporter can contact his with a set in the house average mental
quirie called prophecies that sound radio mort sets-Including the bafic will play happily at an angle of newspaper a few minutes after more than two hours of watch
the ls-about-to-bosupplanted board type(Murphy nr. 90 degrees.
the event, though he may be 20|ing each evening and are TL- showing the first commercini
and puppy ten-month-old miles from the nearest markably difficult to put to bed," boxer bitch-has no fear of the floor "buffle" lype of set.) HMV have a model with twin And
telephone.
Indder in the garden where sho loudspeakers,
Bouncing lives. But the sight of Jadder the street first scares hor ⚫ TO FIND For The Deaf
OUTerally stiff, then makes her pulling her unwilling. ND what about frequency
baby's weight at birth hot, still leads the world. Its rapid THE deaf are catered for, too come mercating exhibits. The A modulation, which may be is a guide to its future develop veterinary Surgeon
owner after hor, reports. TH
Ministry of Rovary and Moore show a storms are located
· MAJOR Supply show how the radio of the future? HMV are ment, British mental exports MONTAGUE BRIDGEMEN denfnid with an Automalle
by rad.o: Ehowing a FM receiver, which have delved into the family. readings from four centres will is used for listening to the ex-histories of 4,800 school-chil- volume control. And
any fellow-practitioner another
bo received and plotted in pub- model can be used
as a radio llc And there is a working from Wrotham--but
perimental BBC transmissions |dren. Their discovery: in met a psychological case similar receiver when off duty.
In this?" be
the model of Heathrow runway,
Velerury Record. Car radio is being spotlighted
Before the 'replica roll in L of 1939. And that's the year on the Badin Mobile and Costos
will beat Beachcomber to the stands (Cossor show a new all-
that we fray. wave car set). The Motor Show
Hollywood's expect is running concurrently with
BIRD WATCHEES are Hogwasch to produce a moder- *bandying
words over nised version of "The Snake how the woodpecker makes its Pit" featuring the wonder-dog rapid tapping noise, which can Lassle. be heard 400 yards away. Orthodox opinion is the obvious
ing its be on wood.
advanco, has put the brake on radio sales, but for years to come it won't be quind's rival, but its glamorous
cet of 1919 is The wireless streets ahead of its elder brother.
when half the licence-holders in Britain bought their last rodio.
Smaller, simpler Radiolympin at Earls Court.
fladiogram sales are
to
"Has
this isn't general the effect of birth weight with all the navigational aids, be made in large quantities. on intelligence is nil.
is still too much in its It by the "line and bar," proact, system-you can watch chrysalls stage hero
ap-
for and Woodpecker song comment n model aircraft being brought that the Marconi
prophecies. But it's notable la by radar.
walkie-talkie VHF still Business Radio
can be
transmitter/receivers (wrighing only 12lb.) supplied either for frequency or
modulation emplitude
(6
-
Last, but not least, you can
shows-Twenty
Ques-
Balco
now 'Sol
-(London Express Service)
THE was gave British toust a plected by the best rate of
big job to do and boosted purchase Lax-two-thirds of ANOTHER highlight of Radio- normal broadcasing). technical standards. The re the price. But radiograms have A dympla is the demonstration Bult
is the increasing per been radically improved since of "business radio" equipment see the broadcast of two special one that it makes it by hammer- In his beautifully written tection of home
listesing the war. Lighter pick-ups and on VHF (very high frequencies). BBC
But COUNTRY CHRONICLE (Chap-. Smailer and simpler sets is the bigger storage
space are the Thus has boomed since the At- tions and Alhambra of the Air. evidence put forward by ne man and Hall, 9s. 6d.). rule-at lower (but not much features of the modern radio- lantic City conference in 1947, tower)prices.
With exports five times the Competitive gram, with permanent or semi-which allocated wave-lengths... price-cutting has already begun, permanent sapphire needles. It's now widely used for taxis, pre-war level. Britain still lends
In the last eight months thero
Filton show a pick-up with lugs, breakdown gangs, and in the way as Radiolympia shows, has been a voluntary price-cut less than one ounce needle pres- all Scotland Yard police cars by the trad of 15.5 percent.
and the average, retail price of
a receiver is about £21.
But for £13 you can buy, for instance, an all-wave portable. and for 15 guinean an all-wave cabinet receiver."
Compare that price, for n choice of 200 listening hours, a the 25 hours, u weck, with
television. If you weck of
—(London Express Service)
It's "Teleolympia" Now!
THEN the greatest television show of all time opened at
Models which produce clear pleture 100 miles from a trans- mitter...
Extension screens for "look-
are a supertax payer, you may Radiolympia, Britain afford a three-in-one
model
improved again to the world ing-in" from other rooms. television, radio and . Kromo-
none
A. device which doubles tho
World reception will be lin- proved by simpler tuning, and the BBC are demonstrating an Interference-free system of transmission.
Hit of the show is the display bar of gold-opparently
in the that. her people have lost size of the picture and projects of a phone-for somthing neighbourhood of £600.
of their inventiva on a flat screen. [This may unguarded.
lead to 3 ft. television accena But the gold is In hotels and clubs.] -
and profected by
The trend this your is to genius. portability and easier tuning, on
normal lighting, and
under
two to eight-wavebands. Table Fublic interest in televisión Aluminised tubes allowing rays. recolvers and radiograms tend is tremendous. More than to replace cabinet models, and 100.000 licences have already comfortable televiewing wood is back agam "Personal" been taken out; the number is sets are popular for the beach Increasing by nearly 2,000 a
garden-und or the
size and week. By next year 500,000 sels weight bove
whittled will be in operation. Hundreda Jown,
been
thlet-proof invisible
Atom men say
'we can keep food a year'
ip-
#ind
TOM research has led to a probably for years, under moșt
new
method of preserving u.favourable conditions. “ food-and of treating flowers,
а After- year electronised" that after several months, pork, poultry and venl retained they look as fresh as when they their full flavour. Grapes were were plcked.
as fresh after six months ns II' It is done by subjecting the just picked, Thrown out by photo-electric food to electron bombardment, The process,
though, cells, these rays are broker. using apparatus rather like the parently speeded up the matur- Build your own
when a hand is moved acrosyclotron used in splitting the ing of wins. New wine, it is: the circuit and the bar la auto atom. Tha bombardment lasts reported, acquired after a few matically whipped out of arm'nly a millionth of a second, blueprints by reach. Five-shilling
Wecks the rich bouquet of families in the Midlands have which amateurs can build sets
This irradiation sterilises all favour of years. been paying weekly instalments
for £15. on sets for a year, anticipating
It will return to view, again A report from Switzerland
Seven tons an hour) the opening of the new Bir- ing sets giving a picture any ger" is post.
One firm has stopped produce automatically, when the. "dan-
ays that the apparatus, called So far the best resulla-have- mingham stätten.
thing smaller than 10 ins, by 3'
the capacitron-the first model been reached with whent, flour, Visitors are invited to
for industrial use is now being spices and plant extracts. MUK ina.
play of many pre-war sela, now ex being shown at Radiolympla at
noughts-and-erosses
bullis
the result of and dairy products were more largely tended to the short waves it prices from £40, including pur- is leal. At 54 inches the view boffins. The machine has an in-
Others claim the ins. cercen robot invented by Government Dr Arno Bresch and Dr Fried- lost colour and flavour.
work by two German scientists, dimcult, while some foodstuffs 051 electrical device which "pulls
lip in"
chase tax, to a 2500 unit com is cald to correspond to station once bining television, radio, the
rich Lange. They fled from the Apples, nuts and eggs reacted from the back row of a cinema fallible memory, and it is likely Nazis in 1933 and becamo United well to irradiation of the skin you've located it on the din),
bookense, and gram,
States citizens.
and shells, after which it was though common,
possible to store them for months.
Better listening EASIER tuning is done by the
bandsprend ruethod, a feature
About 100 types of sets
arc
nuto-
cocktali
with
NEXT CHANGE AT ALHAMBRA wheel and push-button bush at the whole prices are slown erected on the root of Diympia, land on a miniature Heath How.
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Eleven "H" aerials have been
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Rudur-guided model sirgrafi' the "magic-eye" device is not £10 on last year. seen so often..
New Ideas demonstrated in- How is radio meeting the tele- and pictures of cloud formations Better quality listening in the clude:
40 miles away are traced on a vision challenge? Bý concen-
radar screen. key word of Radiolympla, And Portable sets not requiring on trating on what television cur- for the first time sound-proof outstanding aerial.
not do,
-(London Express Service)
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
Position Is Everything
NANCY--MUST
YOU READ THE FUNNIES
ON THE
FLOOR?
USE YOUR
LITTLE
TABLE AND CHAIR
bacteria.
Old wine from now First trials are said, to have expected to be able to handle ne plant now being built is Food: given excellent results. treated by electron bombardevotions of food an hour. ment can be kept for months,
--{London Express. Sérulca)
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