Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California cop (Van Heflin), checking a routine complaint about a house prowler, takes a shine to the complainant (Evelyn Keyes), a nervously bored housewife whose well-to-do and aging husband works as an all-night disc jockey. Loyal but lonely, she resists Heflin as long as she can, finally succumbs to him in an affair carried on against the background of her husband's chirrupy voice plugging commercials on the radio...
...G.l.s who like jive and pin-up girls in about equal proportions, the Armed Forces Radio Service hit upon a neat solution: wrap up both and deliver them in a single package. The package is a pretty ex-movie starlet named Rebel Randall, the disc jockey of Jukebox, U.S.A., whose face and statistics (36 in. bust and hips, 24-in. waist) are every bit as appealing as her throaty voice...
Though she still makes an occasional movie (her most recent is a quickie called Danger Zone), Rebel hopes that the Armed Forces Radio will let her keep her disc jockey show on the air as long as there are U.S. troops overseas. Adds Rebel, who has three brothers of her own in service: "I guess that will be a long time...
...black to white and, gradually, back to black again, simply by reversing the polarity (i.e., changing a positive picture to a negative picture) on the camera. The falling and rising water pail was more complicated. A tiny pail the size of a thimble was mounted on a transparent plastic disc which revolved in front of a revolving drum on which the background was painted. By reversing the disc, the pail seemed to fall up or down; by stopping both disc and drum, the pail seemed to stop in midair. Garroway's "girl multiplier" is still on the top secret...
Rockabye Dudley (Fri. 12:05 a.m., NBC) offers a whispering disc jockey, knee-deep in poesy. Sample: "Here comes Rockabye Dudley/Out of the blue/ Floating on a light cloud/To you." The music is an approximation of the verse...