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...strange contract and gives me freedom to explore the whole field of television. I'm going to urge CBS to encourage the finest minds, the finest talents, to work for this medium." As for the medium itself: "There's been nothing like it since Gutenberg's invention of typesetting. I think it's going to set the intellectual and spiritual climate in this country for the next 20 years-the next 1,000 years...
Walter Winchell, the grand old man of keyhole journalism, often writes as if Communism, cancer and the Cub Room were invented for his exclusive benefit. This week Winchell added Gutenberg to his preserve. He wrote: "The invention of the printing press represented a blessing for columnists-conceivably ranking with the discovery of fire for other mortals...
...pleased several years ago when Professor Langer approached him with the request that he write the Renaissance volume for the "Langer Series." "It gave me a chance to explore all sides of the field," he says. The result was The World of Humanism. Along with a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, insured for $500,000, it appeared last month on television. Omnibus devoted a Sunday afternoon program to the Renaissance, and Gilmore's book was exhibited as a "leading modern source...
...President McKinley, Dr. Putnam transformed the library's haphazard collection of less than a million volumes into one of the world's largest (over 10 million books and pamphlets), developed a new system of classification, supervised the purchase of a valuable European collection of incunabula, including a Gutenberg Bible...
...Caltech's Seismological Laboratory, such researchers as Hugo Benioff and Beno Gutenberg have explored the crust and core of the earth, and found out as much as any men alive about the nature of seismic waves, earthquakes, aftershock. Physicist C.C. Lauritsen produced the first 1,000,000-volt X-ray tube, and Carl Anderson won a Nobel Prize for discovering the positron. Meanwhile, Caltech biologists have been probing their own areas of the invisible. Geneticist Alfred H. Sturtevant described the linear order of genes; Calvin B. Bridges provided proof for the chromosome theory of heredity. In determining that genes...