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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speak of these remarkable birds as "midget parrots." They are, of course, of the parrot family, but their correct name is shell parakeet or budgerigar . . . These remarkable birds . . . can not only be trained to act but to talk as well. My bird, Blue Boy, has a vocabulary of over 400 words which have been distinctly understood by many of his visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...through of that play, once the godfather writes it, gives Molnar's own a spirited last act. Earlier, The Play's the Thing is by no means always spirited: the lines are witty enough, but the story is all too frequently becalmed. The production, however, is well managed throughout. Louis Calhern (Jacobowsky and the Colonel) acts the playwright with sophistication and style; Arthur Margetson plays the trapped actor with humor. As the prima donna, Faye Emerson always scores with her looks, not always with her lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...nuclear physicists. The 184-inch cyclotron at Berkeley generates only about 350 MEV (million electron volts). With this comparatively puny force, it creates mesons, the mysterious particles knocked out of matter by cosmic rays from space. The new cyclotron will give its protons so much energy that they will act like the "primary" cosmic rays themselves, which slam through the earth's atmosphere and plunge deep into the ground. These wild invaders from space have never before been caged in laboratories. No one can guess what awesome things their study may reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 6 BEV | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Within the next few weeks, Congress will consider and vote on HR 5852, the Communist-front Registration Act, better known as the Mundt Bill. This bill would require all Communist and "Communist-front" organizations to file annual statements with the Attorney General, listing their memberships, sources of income, expenditures, and capital, and providing a maximum penalty of $5000 or five year's imprisonment for failure to register...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mundt Bill | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Burke's financial group is also toying with the idea of setting up some sort of mediation board to act when a group has a dispute such as the Band had with the University this term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Book May Be Dropped; Activities Boom Is Planned | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

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