Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME quoted TV Director John Frankenheimer as he directed a Playhouse go scene set in a police station: "...The ceiling is too beautiful. I want it cruddy. Put sprinklers in it." We feel that this is offensive. The automatic sprinkler industry has done an outstanding job over the years of...
RAYMOND J. CASEY National Automatic Sprinkler and Fire Control Association New York City
Bride and Groom: The invitation was marked FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE and read: "One of the biggest show-business weddings of this era will take place when Shirl Conway, the musical comedy and TV star, and Composer Bernie [Vanessa] Wayne, will be married over the NBC network from 2:30 to...
Profit Sharing. To clean up the bitter memories and the vast destruction left by Allied bombers, the government named Engineer-Lawyer Pierre Lefaucheux as boss. He refused to accept state subsidies. "If we do," said Lefaucheux, "the politicians will be telling us how to make door handles." Instead, he floated...
King-Size Necessities. With more money to spend (personal income rose to $343 billion v. $326.9 billion in '56), the U.S. spent more of it ($280 billion) than ever before on a shopping list of modern-day necessities that included 6,400,000 TV sets, 4,000,000 phonographs...