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...space." There should also be a separate property building connected to half a dozen subsidiary studios and a large back lot for outdoor sets. Some of the twelve to 14 cameras will fly overhead on electrically operated cranes; others will peer through trap doors in the studio floor for ant's-eye glimpses of the action. "With a setup like that," says Liebman, "we can put on a 'live' TV movie in an hour...
...Mozart. Wrote the Algemeen Handelsblad: "If Benjamin Britten belongs to the elect, yesterday he was degraded to the level of the many. It was an insipid, listless and pitiful concert . . . the public was faced with a difficult problem: cool reception or forced applause." The Nieuwe Rotterdamse C our ant was slightly more polite: "A quiet, genial evening for anyone who had left exacting criticism at home...
Some puzzlers can be answered only by experiment. Golfer Sam Snead obligingly proved that it is possible to drive a golf ball through a Providence-Pawtucket telephone book. An entomologist held a stop watch on a parasol ant, reported its rate of travel as 720 ft. an hour. Chapman, asked whether a wooden keg full of beer would float in sea water, dropped one into New York Harbor, found that it did -just barely...
Only one writer speculated about the CRIMSON's motives for printing the original letter. "If by ant chance you thought it funny to print that letter, I urge you to revise your sense of humor in fairness to American boyhood within your precincts." Of all the letters to the CRIMSON, it was probably the most misled. Local boyhood had no trouble with the CRIMSON's humor. Other people, aided and abetted by eager copy editors and an ambitious wire service, had plenty of trouble indeed...
This university is one of the greatest research centers in the world, ant it seems incongruous to find its newspaper carrying the publicity of a fanatical group whose every purpose and intention is contrary to that research. Why should the CRIMSON choose to be a vehicle for such short-sighted, emotional propaganda as the New England Anti- Vivisection Society dishes up? I consider this advertisement an insult to the taste and intelligence of the CRIMSON's readers. Peter Durhin...