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Even in these jittery times, people don't talk fast enough to suit University of Illinois Professor Grant Fairbanks. The ear, says Fairbanks, is quicker than the tongue, and words can be understood faster than they can be spoken. Determined to work the human ear to capacity, Fairbanks and...
In the chancy movie business, a producer without distribution is like a camera without film. Ever since it was set up in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, United Artists has been a distributing outlet for independent moviemakers. It permitted them to break away...
His voice, by courtesy of Booby Driscoll, is that of any boy who duels with pirates and rescues Indian Princesses: it reeks with pleasant bravura. Disney's animators make Peter a consummate actor, posturing and posing with verve unequalled since the elder Fairbanks.
In your otherwise charming article on the Queen in your issue of Jan. 5, you say that the Tories took exception to her having dined with Douglas Fairbanks.
Sound Cleaner. Fairbanks Ward Industries in Chicago told about its portable "Electro-Sonic" washing machine: a foot-high aluminum cylinder with an electrically activated heart. The heart's beatings create sound waves too high for the human ear to hear. The waves ripple through the wash water, driving soapy...