Radar
NFORTUNATELY Helen Stirling’s two talks, "A Radar Operator’s Impressions of the Battle of Britain," have not made me sufficiently familiar with radar to feel confident that my comparison is technically appropriate, but I should like to say at the risk of confusing my services that Miss Stirling plotted a steady course (would "sailed on a clear beam" be more fitting?) between the Scylla of triviality and the Charybdis of technicality. Her talks were shop, but presented from the consumer viewpoint, and while she did not scorn the aid of personal anecdote to lighten her descriptions of the techni/ cal side of the work she did not allow her talks to degenerate into mere chattiness. The whole effect was that produced by a well-blended documentary. Miss Stitling’s voice was admirably suited to her role crisp, occasionally ironical yet modest withal. It was not _ at all difficult to fill in the details of well-pressed uniform and trim coiffure and to see her at the work she described and in those settings which the screen has made familiar.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 399, 14 February 1947, Page 11
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