Word: flickering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Logic Baird, 58, a canny Scot who turned an uncanny trick in 1924 when he switched on a homemade gadget (set up on a washstand in a garret over a flower shop), a moment later saw the first picture ever televised flicker on a screen two yards away; after influenza; in Bexhill, Sussex...
...Haven, when the flicker which opens the show refused to flick, the unperturbed Welles cracked: "This just proves what many of us in the theater have felt right along . . . movies are not here to stay...
...fervent: "I have at last gained an insight into the terrible atrocities. ... I can't allow it before my conscience that responsibility . . . should be handed over to ... small people alone.... I have used words which I am sorry now I used." Only once did he show a flicker of his old insolence: "We used the wrong methods in the Government General [of Poland], but then who is perfect running a foreign country? Look at Germany today...
...sentimentally saccharine "B" picture which scratched and jerked across the screen for 80 minutes. (General Shtykov's interpreter gave up after five minutes.) Sunbonnet Sue was followed by an animated cartoon about Traphappy Porky, a jitterbugging pig, which added to the Russians' puzzlement. Promptly after the final flicker, the Russians filed silently...
...jowled, stocky general officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces flew the 100-odd miles back to his Guam headquarters from his B-29 bases at Saipan and Tinian. His aide, waiting with new orders, showed them to the boss. Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay read them without a flicker of expression. Said he, seeming scarcely to open his lips: "File them and we will move tomorrow...