Word: dither
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...enough of a mystery to throw the Federal Communications Commission into a dither. Somewhere in central Ohio an unlicensed radio station was broadcasting with the call letters WKGR. This report was handed to Investigator Edward Adams. Adams hurried into his car, equipped with all the gadgets for locating secret transmitters, and headed for the countryside around Columbus...
Earlier cyclotrons smashed atoms by knocking out of them a few protons or neutrons. Their more powerful successors smash atoms to smithereens, and send protons and neutrons flying every-which-way. Out of the disrupted nuclei come more elusive particles: the mysterious mesons which have atomic scientists in a dither of curiosity...
...consultant, Claudette Colbert spends her days poring through income-tax forms looking for a home-loving rich husband. To keep her in his employ, George Brent sneaks into her files some data on wealthy Robert Young, who is in on the conspiracy to discourage her. The drawing room dither that follows shows everyone falling for Claudette, but nobody very happy about it. Claudette, who appears to be slumming in her farce role, allows herself to be photographed catching a wrestler in her lap, getting belabored with mackerel and judoing Robert Young over her shoulder...
...reason for the zither dither: the catchy, twangy background music that British Cinema Director Carol Reed (Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol) had worked into his new smash hit, The Third Man. The picture demanded music appropriate to post-World War II Vienna, but Director Reed had made up his mind to avoid schmalzy, heavily orchestrated waltzes. In Vienna one night Reed listened to a wine-garden zitherist named Anton Karas, was fascinated by the jangling melancholy of his music...
...cities, dealers reported that LP records were the only ones for which there was a big demand. Many retailers had trimmed prices of standard (78 r.p.m.) records as much as 50% in order to keep stocks moving. Moaned a Los Angeles dealer: "The manufacturers have got everybody in a dither...