DECEMBER 16, 1941

TECHNOLOGY NEWS
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At the Arx Dinner . . .

We spotted HoSSkni-l and his
babe, Jerry Wood (a portrait paint-
er from AHT school) imbibing
dwy Martinis in the Dome, and
babling about gwccn awesome.
Three sips later Hassky said
““7113 that spider cikcd?“ Hmm.
Then they began concocting
words, thusly: (hows: the; littlo
things you iiml in your pockets
after you empty tliom. Dintli: the
state of being the opposite of con-
cave or convex, whichever. At this
point we wandered on . . . we
uncovered Ostcrgron and company
sipping notnmilkshakos in the: Cel—
tic bar . . . Down in the Old Town
room we found a certain Southern
Gal with a certain engineer . . .
our already flagit eyes were ruin-
ed for the Army by the riotous
cffontry of Illunlap'tt necktie. We
hear he has a sports coat to match.
If it’s true, our world is tottering.
We know whay he wears a mull“-
lcr . . . Remember Dani‘ortli slurp-

 

ing his dessert while that piano
sneaked up and leered over his
shoulder? But he played the keys
down to the foot-pedals; . . . we
saw plenty of romantic couples:
Mike and Eloisc, Bud Binklcy and
Jenny Healy (Alum, and, of
course, Lon 30551in and Marla.
1% 5: >11

The war situation snagged oil" a
couple of juniors last week. They
are both good men and we hated
to $399 them go. But Chuck Wright
left for California to join the
Army Air Corps. And Tom Sher-
lock went back to his; job inspect-
ing tanks. Luck, boys.

The next itcm of business for
the! Aux is Hilhcrocimor Bay. it’s
a junior'scnlor projcct and oughln
come oil’ this Friday or Summing.
Lot'u all cooperate, towcr‘schooi—
cm, and; Show that littlc prof a
Emmi! time. it should be pretty
lollygogzggy.

Tln-cccloloo,
AlNN Eliitifl'rlcl).

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E55, -~ a type of carrier telephone circuit —— its now being
’ «it. built into many miles of Long Distance cable lines

to increase their capacity.

Engineers at Bell Telephone Lahomtom’eo developcii
this circuit which enables two pairs of wires in parallel

cables to carry as many as twelve separate conversationa

at the same time.

K carrier is one of the ways we have found of adding
a lot of long circuits in a hurry to meet flefenoc commu—
nication needs. Such problems constantly challenge Bell
System men with pioneering mimic.

 

 

XMAS QQMM
hill” GNCE‘E
A YEAR

By Bonito“. Eilolmun

The time is gelling closer. Get
your girl friends marl at you.
Slop talking to all your friends.
And above all, don’t smile at
anyone. In case you haven’t
guessed by now, Christmas: is
coming. This beautiful helium,
which enables slut/lento to catch
My) on lost semester's uvorlc, holds
many troubles for the unwary
person. For this reason, your
beautiful reporter, who is a sixth
cousin to an eighth aunt, who
knows u friend that tuft/s there
is no Santa Claus, will tell you
how to avoid the pitfalls of
Christmas.

The first thing to do, is to get

 

 

your Zhi‘istmao shopping (10m.
early. The best time to get this
done is before the stores open.

If this doesn’t appeal to you, use
the old World‘s Fair system. This
(-onoists of rushing into a crowd»
cu store, lowering; your head, and
rushing through the crowd, cry-
ing; “Watch out for the ’ricks—
how!“ If you try thio system in
the Loop stores. will you please
keep an eye out for a Small, red-
haired fellow? He tricll this sys-
tem lost your and the last we
heard of him was; a message by
pigeon, last July. At that time,
he was passing through the clot}
trio train department.

Another thing to watch out for
is your local girl friend. Of
('mli’fie. if you go to Armour, and
do so] your work, you probably

l‘zai’ou‘t seen her in several
months. But don’t worry! She’ll

some looking for you. To avoid
thin jioy‘lul meeting, and to save
money (that filthy, green stuff),
rip your telephone out by the
roots. Stop riding to school
whom everyone can see you, and
it this doesn’t work, join the
navy. This way, at least, you
will got in the movies and ad
\"E‘iliui‘i? mot-y magazines.

Tim biggest thing to watch out
for it jricmlx. At this time of
the your. people stop asking for
one cigarette, and begin hinting
for o carton for Christmas. Oth-
or people are a little more con
soi'wtivo; they tell you that they
are going to get you something
for Christmas, and then wonder
what you are going to get them.
Where is only one way to avoid
all this. and that is to go to class
all the time. In this; way you
will not gee all your friends, who
are practicing for the Christmas
vacation by not going to class.
(Ed. Note: By the way, I don’t
need any ties, but my straight-
jacket is getting u bit tight
around the waist and frayed in
the sleeves.)

The lost and worst person to
watch out for to the fellow who
can never take a hint. He is the
type of person that doesn’t even
know when a ton of bricks falls
on him. Well, throw some bricks
at him. You may have to bring
him a present in the hospital, but
that. can’t be counted as 21 Christ-
mas present.

However, if our parents have
told the truth about Santa Claus,
all this worry is for nothing. All
you have to do is send a letter
to Santa Claus telling him what
you want and he Will send them
to you, postpaid.

(Ed. Note: If that’s the case, I
wonder why my gal told ME that
she wanted a new wooden. leg?)

Well, I nearly lost my sense of
humor last week over the turn
of things in the world and at
home, but my American Spirit
just refused to lei me surrender
anything to the enemy, and so,
I got out my vest pocket air
raid shelter, my gas music, my
typewriter, AND MY AMERI-
CAN FLAG, and got to work; on
this spiel (Oh! on! That’s a bad
word, now), on Christmas.

Among the cardinal events of
my childhood (lays, Christmas
Eve stands out above all othero
as a time of joy and happiness
in my life.
is: that on Christmas Eve Santa
Claus; always came to our house.

The whole Christmas Eve rit~
moi of those days goneby was
built upon oimple and sacred tra‘
ditlons. On the morning of
Christmas Eve, we would say
“goodbye" to our father, and he
would go off to work promising
no l‘aitl‘ifully that he would get
back in time to see Santa
Nous. Then, with noontime
drawing near, mother would
start talking pig latin to our
maid,

At about [we o‘clock; in the of»
lemoou mother would. bundle us
kids up in our tools and slot-Icing
taps, and send us off to the home
of our grandparents. There we
would have dinner and a visit
which, um thought would never
cud. But about 7:30 or so, grand—
father would say to grandmoth-
(17", “Well, mother, ils time we
were getting these laid..- back
home,” and, before we [mew ll,

The reason for this‘

   

we were in a taxi going back: to
that house of mystery that we
had loft so many houws before.

Then just at the psychological
moment, a loud knock would be
heard at tho door. There would
he a pause of a minute or two,
and then Santa Claus would
burst in upon us. He would first
ask us if we had been good, try-
to-bc-good, or bad children, durn
ing the your, and if we answered
corroctly by saying that we had
been try-to-bo’good children, he
would commence giving the pres-
sents out. of his: great, white sack.
During thio procedure, Santa
Claus would always; be highly
bothered by the fact that our
father was not present to receive
his gifts; and we kids would. have
to beg and plead for dad, and as
I look back upon it now, Sano
ta Claus; always seemed to smile
while we enumerated to him the
many virtues and fine points of
our father.

When all the gifts had been
given out, Santa Claus Would
make us all say our prayers, and
Hum wishing all of us the mer-
Most of Christmases, he would
go. About twenty minutes later
there would be another knock at
the door. it would be dad.

From there on, my memory
falls me, but the peace and happi~
nous of those days gone by will

always serve to assuage the
pains; of the future.
on, my! Who put up the

Christmas tree? I never did find
that out. Who alone it?

 

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by Chm-loo l. Ball
A number of excellent singers
are featured by Victor in its ope-
(-ial Christmas releaoes _.. Helen

'l‘muiwl, Marian Antler-son, and
Richard (iroolm.
Holt-m 'il‘raubcl is featured on

two 10 inch records, the first foo»
wring lwo famous carom—“Silent
Night, Holy Night," and “0h, Come
All Ye Faithful” (N0. 2186). “Ride
with Mr" and Molotlc'o over popu-
lar “'i‘hc Lord’s Prayer" are con—
tained on the second record (No.
2187). American born Helen Trau-
iw], who this year took Kiroton
Flagomd’o place as leading Wag»
nerian soprano at the Met, is; an-
other example of an outstanding
singer trained in this; country.

Marian Anflcrson, one of the
greatest contraltos of all time rec—
ords arias from four of the best
known oratorios in Victor Album
Xvi-850 (three 12 inch records). Ac-
companied by the Victor Sym~
phony orchestra directed by Char-
lcs O‘Connell she sings a selection
each from Bach's “Passion of Our
Lord According to St. John,“ Mon-
dcisoohnlo “Elijah," Mcmlclssohn’o
“St. Paul,“ and two selections from
Hundt-I’H “The Messiah."

No longer may this country fear
tho lack of accomplished musici-
ans when foreign born or foreign
trained artists-i arc not available.
Schina was: rccnllcd to Italy at the
norsonai roqucst of Count Ciano;
Jussi Bjorling is in Swedmi: Flap;-
stad is in Norway; Gigli and other
great artists have disappeared in
to Europe. it is true we mios them,
but a great number of capable
Anmrimns have taken Hi 0 i r
Macon.

by 'lt‘cd van Golder

With a Merry Christmas to all
we lint! Al‘vlno Roy Spinning in
tho Uhriotmhu whirl with “Santa
Clam; is. Coming to 'lfowm" (Mum
him] ill-113ml), the King Siotoro on
the vocal “mm, This ‘io couplctl
with anothor Yuletide standby 0f
“Jingle. Bella" rocoi'tlcd by Glenn
Milieu am] coumzmy. 'll‘hc ohms-no isl
taken by Tux iicnccko, Ernie Ca-
verns, and tho Motlcmalreo. This
holiday special is onc that nobody
wont!» to miss.

“Silent Night, Holy Night" is
recorded by Deanna Durhin with
Charlie li’rovin’s orchestra (Decca
1819?!) with the Male Octet and
organ. The reverse side is “(locate
Widows," sung in English and Lot-
in. This well known Christmas
pair is done in superb style by
Miss Durbin . . . Another pair is
recorded by Kenny Baker, name
Dunstfll‘lflr at the organ, “Hark
the Herald Ange-ls Sing" (Decca
2190) and “it Como Upon .a Miti-
night Clear.”

The top holler in new popular
records is, of course. “Chainnooga
Choo Choo" (Blucbim 341230)
recorded by Glcnu Miller. Tex
Bt‘ncckc and the Mmllornnircs take
the vocal rcfrain and it’s really
on tho beam. Coupicd with this i9-
miolhcr song from the movie “Sim
Valley Sci-ohmic,” “ll Know Why"
sung by Pouda Kelley and the Morl-
crnaircs. This recortl is tops. it's
been the Coca Ooh: Spotlight \Wiilb
nor twice alrcnniy.

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U. S. filoicnso Siomoo
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