Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, that was no anachronistic school bell that rang-that was the educational explosion, the sound of a roaring pursuit of learning that has never been matched either in quality or in numbers in U.S. history...
Clara Bow never found the limelight again. Her comeback efforts-two pictures, a Hollywood cabaret called, embarrassingly, It-all flickered feebly and failed. She retired to live with her husband, Cowboy Actor Rex Bell (later Lieutenant Governor of Nevada), on Bell's 350,000-acre ranch near Searchlight, Nev., and raised their two sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons...
...list of immigrants and their sons who helped to mold American art and industry, politics and science is endless. There were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri...
...BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Guests include Ginger Rogers and Ella Fitzgerald...
Polaroid subcontracts most of its camera manufacturing-U.S. Time Corp makes most Polaroids, Bell & Howell will produce the Swinger in the U.S.-but it is so deeply committed to the film business that it plans to erect a nine-building complex of film plants over the next ten years. Land is also developing a film that will produce instant color transparencies, and negotiating with Tex Thornton's Litton Industries to enter jointly the office-copier business. Polaroid recently opened a film plant in The Netherlands, this fall will open another in Scotland; later this year, U.S. Time will...