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I don't think she was ever told why we had her on every Saturday night. One reason of course, was her popularity and enthusiastic interest in television. . . . But the engineers also had an interest (impersonal) in her. They tinkered with the equipment constantly and wanted to televise the same subject at frequent intervals in order better to judge the results of their work. Of particular interest to the engineers was a slight space between Miss Remsen's upper front teeth. The distinctness with which this space could be seen on the ground-glass screen became one of the yardsticks of early television reception.
PHILIP F. FRANK
West Hartford, Conn.