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During Brooklyn's first-game rally, Russ Meyer, Philly pitcher who was watching the game with a number of teammates from a box near the Boston dugout, became annoyed when a photographer insisted on taking his picture. Meyer first warned the camera man, then when another bulb went off he get in two blows before a spectator pulled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major League Baseball | 9/30/1950 | See Source »

...tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Vent | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...among the most infamous of quack nostrums. Last week a salve got a respectable introduction to some distinguished physicians. At the Fifth International Cancer Congress in Paris, an earnest German scientist reported encouraging results in treating breast cancer with a salve containing a chemical derived from a common garden bulb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From the Autumn Crocus | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Because nature often takes a bad picture, TV cameramen have learned a few tricks to titivate nature's frowzy face. Examples: strips of cloth dangled before a spotlight make a plausible flickering fire, and broken brown glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a convincing pile of smoldering coals. Dry pablum, confetti or bleached corn flakes are used as a snow flurry; ice cream salt is hail, and raw white rice shaken from a colander looks enough like rain. Glycerine spray makes studio props appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gilded Lilies | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...throwing its property on the market for sale, just locks up those plants, tosses their 15,000 highly skilled employees out in the cold, and sits tight. Can the Government force a sale? ... If G.E.'s production capacity is suddenly cut 50%, won't that create a bulb shortage, with retail prices jumping? . . . What the hell goes on here, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Victory for Alcoa | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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