Word: evens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fooling the Eye. Stripped of technical embroidery, the basic theory of color television is fairly simple. Even a black & white television picture is an optical illusion. All there is on the screen at any instant is a fast-moving bright spot that "scans" back & forth, covering the whole screen with 525 lines of light which the slow-reacting human eye (if not brought too close) sees as a picture. The pictures follow one another so fast (30 a second) that they are blended by the eye to give the illusion of motion-just as the eye blends the frames...
...Even when Monroe records (There I've Said It Again, Ballerina, et al.) began selling like hot cakes (5,000,000 in 1948) and his name began to climb toward the top of popularity polls for the country's most popular male vocalist and bandleader, he still kept up his barnstorming. (He still averages 200 one-night stands, covers 50,000 miles a year.) A small-town boy himself, he was never too busy to launch local Community Chest or Christmas Seal drives...
...beam? Fill the stands on Saturday and watch us back our team!"). Twice a day, they snarled traffic with their jalopies, peddled tickets to pedestrians and motorists. Each afternoon they had a six-piece band jiving in front of the Book Nook store. Covering every angle, they even patched the hole in the stadium fence so that grade-school kids could no longer sneak in free...
...President Sachar, such projects are only the beginning. By 1952 he hopes to have at least 750 students, might even make a start toward a $20 million medical school. "We're committed to a program," says he. "We have got to show what...
...Protestantism's excessive fragmentation, says Dr. Douglass, is also responsible for a crisis in the theological seminaries. "So long as most of the 250 Protestant denominations try to train their own ministers, the quality of the training must suffer ... Even more serious is the fact that many young ministers are discouraged by the whole pattern of Protestant disunity. They are disheartened at the prospect of starting their life work in a community of competing churches-where there are not enough members of their own denomination to give them a man-sized...