. Bell telephone magazine . York and in museumsand galleries both here and abroad. ^ Alix L. L. Ritchie, author of Tele-zonia, page 41, has been with theBTM since October, 1961 and in herpresent position as associate editor sinceNovember, 1963. Although Telezoniais the first article that has carried herby-line it is not by any means the firsttime her writing has appeared in theMagazine. For example the pictorial fea-ture, The Worst On Record on page50 of this issue is another of her con-tributions. She also handles the In TheNews department and is the Magazineschief Guardian of The Language. A


. Bell telephone magazine . York and in museumsand galleries both here and abroad. ^ Alix L. L. Ritchie, author of Tele-zonia, page 41, has been with theBTM since October, 1961 and in herpresent position as associate editor sinceNovember, 1963. Although Telezoniais the first article that has carried herby-line it is not by any means the firsttime her writing has appeared in theMagazine. For example the pictorial fea-ture, The Worst On Record on page50 of this issue is another of her con-tributions. She also handles the In TheNews department and is the Magazineschief Guardian of The Language. After attending Wellesley College,Miss Ritchie received her fromNew York University. In 1963 she re-ceived the degree in English fromthe NYU Graduate School of Arts andSciences, completing the requirements forthe degree while with the BTM. Cur-rently, she is a member of the English(Graduate Association, the New YorkUniversity Alumnae Advisory Council onAdmissions and the Shakespeare Societyof Wellesley College. 58. news. Transatlantic 50th 75th Million Phone TAT-4 In Service Air Force Citation Lunar Surface Properties Statewide ETV Wire Drawing Technique 50 Years Ago, Voices AcrossThe Atlantic ■ In October, 1915, all was not quiet onthe Western Front; the guns boomedwith regularity. Atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris,two young American engineers—Herbert and Austin M. Curtis, both of theBell Telephone Systems Research Staff (nowBell Telephone Laboratories)—had beenstraining to hear a message from the UnitedStates which would establish the first trans-oceanic radiotelephone transmission. The man who conceived the idea of mak-ing this first test of transoceanic radio tele-phony was John J. Carty, then chief engineerand a vice president of It was underhis direction that all of the Bell Systemspreliminary development work in radio tele-phony had been undertaken, and the Boardof Directors of supported his decisionto investigate just how voice comm


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