Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that normal is ill-defined. His pulse is a low 64, as it has been for years. (In highly trained athletes it tends to run below the 72 that is considered normal for the general run of sedentary humanity.) His weight, 150 Ibs. spread over a frame that now seems to have shrunk to about 5 ft. 6 in., has not changed in threescore years...
...Show (NBC, Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m.) covers much the same ground with the same sentimental tarpaulin. Old Vaudevillian Wynn, who last year at 70 rose up as a dramatic actor in The Great Man, brings only hints of his legendary Palace clowning to his new home-a simple frame house in a small college town. As a kindly widower raising two grand-daughters-and all sorts of sagacious Cain with the town fathers-Wynn emits enough warmth to heat Buffalo for a month. It is as comedy that the show...
...hear "the new dimension in sound," stereophonic records and tapes. Spread over five floors, the 125 exhibitors concentrated on showing the fast growth of the new art. General Electric showed only stereophonic components; Massachusetts' small Wright St. George Laboratories displayed an inexpensive ($65), thin (1⅜ in.) picture-frame speaker that can be secreted behind curtained walls or prints, is well suited for stereo,* which requires at least two speakers some distance apart. This year, sales of such stereo gear will help swell the music market by $50 million, to $450 million or more...
...obscure the view through our windshields with suspended St. Christopher replicas to win the protection of a patron saint," said the Rev. Martin L. Goslin of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church, "but how much do we do for a moral frame of mind? Assuredly we are called upon . . . not necessarily to enjoin people to turn the other cheek, but more appropriately to turn the other fender...
...children. Rattan Kumar and Baby Naaz, flash from delight to fear to solemn determination with startling virtuosity. From her scrawny, seven-year-old frame, Actress Naaz somehow sums up the whole history of her sex, chattering happily as she works with her brother, huddling against him for warmth, patting his arm in a crisis and reassuring him, "I'll manage it somehow." Raj Kapoor trains his camera on them almost without a break, and they have rewarded him by endowing his film with the gentle luster of a miniature masterpiece...