Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading woman of Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning) about a ghost in London's Drury Lane Theater. With these ingredients, and a background of German lieder played on a guitar, Actress Lilli Palmer (currently starring with husband Rex Harrison in Broadway's Bell, Book and Candle) last week began a new TV show over Manhattan's station WCBS-TV (Thurs...
...leading authority on the subject, Dr. Claude E. Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories, believes that a computer can play-theoretically-a perfect (unbeatable) game of chess. But on the practical side, no existing or projected computer is fast enough to make the calculations. In planning a typical 40-move game, he figures, the machine would have to make 10¹²º (10 followed by 119 zeros) calculations. Even at the lightning speed of electronic computers, the job would take 1090 years before the machine could make the first move...
Start with the A's. As a director of the Ford Foundation, Hutchins' voice would not be lost. Last week, while his trustees began the search for a successor ("We'll just start with the A's in Who's Who," sighed Chairman Laird Bell). Robert Hutchins seemed still willing to raise that voice. "If you are going to present education as it is," he said, "you've got to present it as a mess. But why not do this: Why not sell the idea of a liberal education?" The Hutchins idea...
Reporter Shannon's articles, running in the Journal this week, began with Zebulon High School in Pike County, an unkempt building with creaking steps and crumbling plaster, and a rusty bell without a clapper. Close by stood its "lunchroom " a former Army barracks that sagged and leaned dangerously. Through 28 Georgia counties Reporter Shannon came upon a similar pattern of dirt and decay-"a theme," she wrote, "that plays almost like a broken record . . . over & over & over . . . in unfortunate Georgia schools...
When FCC made its color TV decision in favor of CBS (TIME, Oct. 23), RCA's scrappy Board Chairman David Sarnoff apparently did not hear the bell ending the fight. Last month he won a temporary injunction restraining the FCC decision. Last week, still in there swinging, he personally ran a demonstration of RCA's improved color TV system in Washington. More than 100 newsmen and businessmen saw color pictures that were brighter, more stable and had much better definition than any RCA color previously shown...