. Bell telephone magazine . g about hurricanes a habit withJuDSON Bradley. His story of the tele-phone destruction and reconstruction afterthe New England hurricane of six yearsago, The Bell System Meets Its GreatestTest, appeared in the Bell TelephoneQuarterly for October, 1938. To writeit, he visited all the New England Statessave Maine; but he was able to see onlypart of Cape Cod after last Septembersblow. He joined the Publicity Departmentof the Southern New England TelephoneCompany in 1925, after several years of edi-torial experience elsewhere, and since 1930has been a member of the staf
. Bell telephone magazine . g about hurricanes a habit withJuDSON Bradley. His story of the tele-phone destruction and reconstruction afterthe New England hurricane of six yearsago, The Bell System Meets Its GreatestTest, appeared in the Bell TelephoneQuarterly for October, 1938. To writeit, he visited all the New England Statessave Maine; but he was able to see onlypart of Cape Cod after last Septembersblow. He joined the Publicity Departmentof the Southern New England TelephoneCompany in 1925, after several years of edi-torial experience elsewhere, and since 1930has been a member of the staff of the A. T. Companys Information Department. Technical and scientific publications—theBell Laboratories Record and the Bell Sys-tem Technical Journal, for instance—canappropriately appraise at length the con-tributions of Dr. Frank B. Jewett to theart of electrical communication and his in-fluence upon the development of researchin applied science. No more than a fewpages must suflSce here to mark his retire-. Knud Fick ment, and Robert W. King has made apoint of being entirely objective about thewithdrawal of the superior officer withwhom he has been closely associated in re-cent years. In a career in science whichhas served the Bell System since 1917, has been—among other things—as-sistant technical director in Europe for theA. T. & T. Company from 1929 to 1935,and, since 1940, assistant vice president ofthat companys Department of Develop-ment and Research. With Dr. Jewettsretirement, he has become Assistant to thePresident of the Bell Telephone Labora-tories. That the statistics on pages 205—207necessarily include many an estimate whichconforms with the cynics definition of aneducated guess, their compiler, KnudFick, would doubtless freely admit. Theyare, nonetheless, the best obtainable, and are published here as a matter of record. ; Mr. Fick was born in Denmark, and |! served in the Danish Foreign Office and ! other branches of the Danish governm
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