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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what I send my child to bed for doing." But Producers Frank and Leslie, now busily showing the film to distributors, are confident that it will soon thumb a ride with a glossy, full-length Hollywood feature, carry its cryptic message of the Beats to the neighborhood theater-and even the village squares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENDSVILLE: Zen-Hur | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Truth Shows. Even on CBS, the giveaways still had a fighting chance, all tucked into a clause that said schlock was taboo "except where reasonably necessary and natural." Art Linkletter, whose CBS show House Party gives away about $3,000 worth of prizes a week, promptly announced: "If we can't qualify for the 'except' rule, somebody will have to pay for the prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Climbing the Pedestal | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...good result of the television scandals came to light: a growing demand for news and public affairs programs, dubbed "truth shows." NBC announced a weekly public affairs program in prime evening time on topics ranging from alcoholism to the summit. Plans were jelling for TV Critic John Crosby to appear on a new CBS show devoted to books, arts, entertainment. Edward R. Murrow's longtime associate, Fred W. Friendly, told New York Herald Tribune Columnist Marie Torre: "Even the elevator operators here at CBS look at us differently. It's as if we've been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Climbing the Pedestal | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...pathologists were looking for changes in the cells, along a spectrum from normal through slightly abnormal to precancerous and finally cancerous. There were many abnormalities that the pathologists rated as probably too minor to be significant; also, many patients had died of pneumonia or other lung diseases. Even including these cases, the pathologists found atypical cells in only 3.8% of slides from nonsmokers and 10.9% of those from occasional cigarette smokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Dormant Danger. But even moderate regular smoking went with a startling rise in the chart for atypical cells: for men who smoked less than half a pack daily, it soared to 90.6% of the slides. In the half-pack to one-pack bracket, it was 97%; for one to two packs, 99.3%; more than two packs, 99.6%; and in lung cancer victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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