Coincidences In the Air

Lake County Mail, Issue 38, 25 February 1948, Page 5

Coincidences In the Air

Cold, frosty nights, when thousands of stars are shining in a clear sky, are a joy to that section of radio listeners known as “ knob-twiddlers.” It is. on such nights that reception is at itsbest. Music and vqjiees jostle each other on the ether, and a few turns of the tuning knob will bring in station after station. Such rapid knob-twiddling sometimes brings queer results, when the beginning of a sentence comes from the announcer of one station and the end may be a dramatic interjection from another station, A reader writes to the Radio Times on this point with the following incident: “Recently I happened to hear the following phrases uttered by male voices in succession on separate wavelengths. ‘ln the fullness of her beauty she stood before him . . . looking like a hundred miles of swamp.’ n Stranger still may be those moments when you tune in your radio set and it appears to be making a terse comment on your own last remarks at the family fireside. Another letter in a recent Radio Times tells of an Incident of this kind. “ The other night I had the radio tuned to a variety show, and I was doing some odd jobs of mending. At the same time I had left a piece of elastic on the table, and it had disappeared. So, thinking ibf catapults; I called to my boy, * Have you seen my elastic? ’ Imagine my surprise when a voice qyer the loudspeaker said, ‘ What do you want elastic fort ’ ”