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Color Now. To the FCCommissioners and other nonscientific listeners, the workings of the systems seemed far less complicated than the arguments about their comparative virtues. The solidest single fact is that the CBS system, developed to high perfection by Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, turns out pictures which are bright, crisp, and at least as faithful as most colored movies. Their own special ill is a so-called "color flash." If the viewer looks away suddenly, he sees the picture momentarily in a single color, because of the persistence in the eye of the last one-color picture seen. A color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Elephants have a line which has opened large holes for fullback Rick Hudner; downfield blocking is probably the most crisp in House football, and halfbacks Pete Reiner and Jim Rossiter gallop around the ends in the style of Princeton's Dick Kazmaier. Cabot also can work in his own passing game, on those infrequent times when the ground attack bogs down. Defensively, the Elephants need only point to the puny scoring record of the opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powerful Eliot House Eleven To Play Unbeaten Berkeley | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...timing should show definite improvement this Saturday. Men who played against Dartmouth with only the minimum scrimmage time beforehand, Hal Moffie for instance, will be more crisp in their exceution Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valpey Runs Contact Drill To Polish Varsity Timing | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...anybody should want to spend a crisp fall afternoon running four and one-half miles on the brails at Franklin Park has long puzzled sports cycle. This form of amusement, loosely-labeled "cross-country", running, is as for from their idea of fun as washing is to "Bathless" Groggings...

Author: By Gene R. Keahney, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

...Toad Disney is back where he belongs-in the world of inspired fauna and improbable flora. J. Thaddeus Toad, madcap scion of an ancient family of landed British amphibians and a passionate gadgeteer, comes near being one of his liveliest, most lovable creations. Narrated with crisp anonymity by Basil Rathbone, the film is packed with memorable moments: Toad chugging about on his rump in delirious imitation of a motorcar; his flight from jail through a dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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