Word: allens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fred Allen said that radio was "a bog of mediocrity"; John Dos Passes called it "the triumph of the illiterate." But radio is stronger than the kicks and the curses; not even television can kill it. TV, in fact, now rules the bog, while radio has resurged; thanks to the big beat and the news beat it has become a thriving, throbbing medium. Today there are over eight times more radio than TV stations (5,817 to 704), and more radio receivers in the U.S. (242 million) than people...
...surprising success is Wiff'n Proof, a cranium-cracking game of symbolic logic played with 36 lettered dice, which was deviously devised by Yale Law Professor Layman Allen. It is played for its instructional values in junior high schools throughout the U.S. And why not? It's really simple once you know that a WFF (pronounced woof) is a Well Founded Formula and a Proof is, well, a proof. And just in case that isn't clear enough, there are a few written instructions to help out-223 pages of them, to be exact...
GENE KELLY IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Kelly dances from Kennedy Airport to the U.N., Greenwich Village, the Museum of Modern Art, the Plaza Hotel and the Bitter End, among other places, and is joined along the way by Woody Allen, Gower Champion, Damita Jo and Tommy Steele...
...Stratford, Connecticut Shakespeare Festival that Carnovsky, under Allen Fletcher's direction, first played Lear. Since that time Carnovsky's power in the role has steadily increased. We can only wish him many happy Lears to come...
...since each child works alone at his own pace. Breaking reading down to simple steps that lead a child progressively toward more difficult words, yet do not bore him, was Sullivan's greatest problem. His first attempts failed badly. A member of his team at the time, Psychologist Allen Calvin, tried programming a Superman story, found that it held kids' interest about nine times longer than the reading program. Even a programmed version of a Sears, Roebuck catalogue did five times better. "We were terribly discouraged," recalls Sullivan...