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...Manufacturers Philco and Du Mont demonstrated machines designed to get a much-better-than-ordinary picture from TV film. Using prisms and a new light source, the machines (already in production) scan the film continuously, thus eliminating the flicker of ordinary film projection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Wild Blue Yonder | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...real opportunity of escape lay with the Rosenbergs themselves. If they broke their long silence-if they confessed the secrets of their spy ring-then the President might consider a new appeal for clemency. But up to now the Rosenbergs have clung to their dark secrets, have shown no flicker of regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Mercy and Justice | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...show-stealer is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's lustrously blonde playmate. On the stage, Tinker Bell has usually been depicted as a flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...royal family than any Westerner in history. She found the Emperor a "shy and sensitive man," the Empress a "comfortable, motherly figure." But her favorite royal personage was twelve-year-old Crown Prince Akihito himself-"a lovable-looking small boy, round-faced and solemn but with a flicker of humor in his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Window Opener | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...lost cause." He enters a half-waking trance, broken only by his groaning, hiccuping and incomprehensible muttering. In the small hours of May 5, 1821, he cries: "Who retreats?", and then.: "At the head of the Army!" In the late afternoon, Napoleon sighs three times, his pupils flicker, his chin twitches up & down with "clockwork regularity"-and an equerry hurries off to inform the British governor that it is all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marshal & Master | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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