Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preoccupation with immediate, practical results, the U.S. is badly neglecting pure scientific research. The warning was sounded last week by Nobel-Prize-winning Atomic Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg* before a joint meeting in San Francisco of the Atomic Industrial Forum and Stanford's Research Institute. Seaborg's clincher: of the nation's huge ($3 billion) annual outlay for science, "no more than 5% . . . is used for basic research...
...Francisco, Stanford University's Research Institute and the Atomic Industrial Forum held their first conference on peacetime atomic energy, drew 530 businessmen, engineers and scientists from every corner of the U.S. At the conference, such companies as Kaiser Engineers, Glenn L. Martin Co. and American Machine & Foundry reported that they were expanding their nuclear laboratories by as much as 300%, spending up to four times as much money as before. One group of 33 companies, banded together in a combine called Atomic Power Development Associates, announced that it was upping its budget to nearly $4,000,000 this year...
Martha Davidson seemed to have read about the only-Golux-in-the-world with considerable understanding. And she somehow communicated this understanding to her body so that the Golux was consistently right and helped the whole thing go along. Her protectorate, Prince Zorn by Glenn Goldberg, was gracefully awkward and cloud-eyed as he followed the only Golux over the Duke's dead body to the hand of the Princess Saralinda. Goldberg and Miss Davidson were most always very good at being what they should...
...Glenn Ford is a confused and sensitive young teacher in the part of Dadier. His portrayal falters only in certain scenes, as in his return to his old college, where the script leads him down with so many lines of platitudinous garbage that he could scarcely he expected to carry them off well. Among his colleagues at the school. Louis Calhern is bitter but human as a disillusioned history teacher, while Margaret Haves reads her way through a very hollow portryal of a pretty and frustrated schoolteacher who tempts circumstances too much...
Cinematically, Blackboard Jungle is no great shakes. The camera work is commonplace and the emotional pace limps. The actors do better. Glenn Ford is a believable symbol of two-fisted do-goodism; Louis Calhern captures that special look of secret decay that can come from breathing chalk dust for 30 years. Better still are the students themselves, some of whom were borrowed from their desks in the Los Angeles public school system. The sense of them there in the background has obviously provided a true emotional standard to which the professional actors, notably Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow, could repair...