Word: cowans
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Monstrous Assembly. Several years ago Drs. Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan Jr., physicists of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, armed themselves with AEC money and went hunting neutrinos. Their first attempts, with a monstrous assembly of special apparatus, were inconclusive (TIME, May 10, 1954). They thought they detected neutrinos streaming out of the AEC's great reactors at Hanford, Wash., but they were not sure. So they returned to Los Alamos and constructed an even more monstrous apparatus...
...Question (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS) was one year old last week and still the most popular TV show in the U.S. (Its originator, Louis G. Cowan, was named vice president-Creative Services, CBS Inc.) In return for Question'?, vast audience during the year, its sponsor paid relatively little in prizes: $648,608 and ten Cadillacs. Four contestants won the jackpot of $64,000, eight won $32,000, six won $16,000, four...
...show's producers, Louis G. Cowan Inc., brushed off the first criticism with the statement that Della Rocca was simply an amateur impresario who dabbles in low-cost opera in his home town of Baldwin, L.I. On the second point, though denying that the Delia Rocca-Prato appearance was planned, they conceded that The $64,000 Challenge will come on the air next month, replacing Sunday night's Appointment with Adventure. The gimmick: people who have written in saying they are just as good at opera as Della Rocca or at cooking as Marine Captain Richard S. McCutchen...
Died. Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, 84, Commander (1917-20) of the Grand Fleet's 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, Naval Aide-de-Camp (1930-31) to George V; of pneumonia; in Leamington, England...
...week's end, CBS - which already has twice as many quiz shows as any other network - gave further evidence of its faith in the potency of unrelated bits of knowledge by announcing the revival of still another Louis Cowan show, Quiz Kids, with a new set of child prodigies under the fatherly wing of Clifton Fadiman, 51, who learned his trade on such question-&-answer shows as Information, Please and This Is Show Business...