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...compress this vast story into a popular film biography involves a challenge that might well deter Hollywood. On a less ambitious scale-and aiming to teach as much as to entertain-the Radio and Film Commission of the U.S. Methodist Church has produced John Wesley, a 77-minute "semidocumentary" in color. Made at cost ($200,000) by Britain's J. Arthur Rank, a zealous Methodist himself, it is "for use in the churches...
...many ways, MISCELLANY is the most difficult column in the magazine to fill. For one thing, the rules of the game require that every item be written in one sentence, and some amusing short news stories simply will not compress into one sentence. Further, the item must appeal to 1) the writer, 2) the senior editor, 3) the managing editor, and 4) the researcher...
Making the kitchen a nice room has meant a drastic change in kitchen design. In the '30s and '40s it was fashionable to compress the kitchen into a space-saving, antiseptic cubicle. But as postwar families grew, kitchens grew with them. Since the war and the shortage of domestic help, whole houses are virtually being designed around colorful, labor-saving kitchens that can also serve as all-purpose living space for the family...
...compress so much in such a small package is a triumph of fine reporting...
...laboratory and determine, for example, if the burp is a plosive or a fricative or how many times per second the navel vibrates during the sounding of the intermediate "a," but I do cry out in anguish when I learn that Fairbanks is now devising ways to compress speech (TIME, March 23] and . . . endorsing the general idea of faster speaking...