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On OL Jilrary SUfDial Press of New York haa announced the publication of “The Pulse of Radar” by Sir Robert Watson-Watt. Richmond Hill and district library-goers will know this autobiography by the “father of radar” as “Three Steps to Victory.”For those who enjoy reading about the magnificent side of World War II, we heartily recommend this book, which flows along with such an informal, natural air one feels the reader is sitting with the author “on the crest of a Canadian ravine”, in his study at Cranberry House, Thornhill.Outside are wooded slopes of pine . . . inside the study, the walls and roof trusses of pine (over 100 years old) accentuate the strong personality of the man who states in his book. “Stimulated by the modern, (in paintings, music and writing), I am soothed and caressed by the less modern.”Sir Watson-Watt, who says he is a sixth-rate mathematician, a second rate physicist, a second-rate engineer, a bit of a meteorologist, something of a journalist, a plausible salesman of ideas, interested in politics, liking to believe there is some poetry in my physics, some physics in my politics.” is also, one perceives as they read his informative and romantic book, a philosopher and a canny Scotsman. .As a prelude to the story of his development tf radar, the author refers to his 'experience’ which he likens to a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle. ‘Each piece is cut from the original wood of my own being, but in some the picture fragment is carved deeply into the wood, some have a clear bright picture painted directly on it, some have flimsy paper stuck on with austerity glue” . . . “the player in this game of experience cuts the pieces out of himself, so you should know more of me than that I ‘had something to do with radar’.”
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Richmond Hill Liberal
Richmond Hill, Ontario, CA
Thu, Apr 16, 1959
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