Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerical worker at the agency, and married in 1942. She is now assistant director of McCann-Erickson's copy research department. Having no children, Mr. & Mrs. Harper sometimes stay at the office until 2 a.m., working together. Says Mrs. Harper: "I think he's quite bright...
Veteran singers who for years have been getting by on their voices alone nervously consulted their dressing-room mirrors, daubing on brown face paint (their usual bright red doesn't televise well). To look his best, Tenor Ramon Vinay turned up in the purple burnoose that famed Actor Edwin Booth wore as Othello...
There is one bright spot in the lighting picture; the library system. Widener incorporates old but adequate fixtures in the main reading room; the Union Catalogue and some downstairs offices have the best non-specialized installations in the University. These were installed as pilot-models for Lamont; the new library will use slim-line fluorescent tubing which turns out 20 foot-candles and can be stepped up if required, at no greater operating cost than ordinary fixtures. Keyes DeW. Metcalf, library director, spent three years shopping around and employed a bunch of lighting consultants before deciding on the arrangement...
...righteousness of the plot and the resulting humorlessness of the Big Scenes. They are bad enough in themselves. What is worse, they give Richard Rodgers situations which require all the major songs to be so heavy and and serious that people leave the theater wishing there had been more bright songs--such as "Mountain Greenery...
...made the Daily News, the late Captain Joe Patterson, demanded that his headline hunters make their heads "understandable, applicable and bright." The man who keeps them that way is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), red-mustached William Bernard Murphy, 53, copydesk chief. A paper like the Daily News is only as good as its copy desk, and the desk is as good as its chief, who must combine speed, accuracy, zeal, bad temper, and a quick eye on guard for double meanings...