Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actress strolled into a CBS television studio in Manhattan last week, eyed a motley crew of amateur technicians assembled for rehearsal of her daytime serial. "Which one of you," she asked facetiously, "is Mr. Paley?" CBS's Board Chairman William S. Paley was not there to lend a hand with the show, but he might have been. In eight cities across the U.S. where CBS owns TV and radio stations, some 1,300 members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers had walked out, abandoning cameras, microphone booms, control panels and projectors. Quipped a studio...
...from studios and the I.B.E.W. crews that such broadcasts employ. They further worry that the taping will be taken over by outside companies that do not employ I.B.E.W. technicians. Negotiators for CBS and the union began wrangling in Washington at week's end, with a federal mediator on hand to keep them tuned in to each other...
Completely successful by contrast was the mouth-to-mouth method, in which the victim is placed on his back, mouth cleared of all foreign matter, while the rescuer leans down from the side. The rescuer raises the chin of the patient with one hand, forcing open the jaw with his thumb, holds the nose with his other hand. He then blows hard and fast, inflating the victim's lungs, stops when the chest rises so that the lungs can automatically deflate. The cycle is repeated at a rate of 20 inflations per minute until revival. For even more efficient...
...Russians, still slightly incredulous that any U.S.-trained pianist could be so good, who decided that he was ready for the big time. The night before Composer Dmitry Shostakovich was to hand out the first prize-25,000 rubles, or $6,250 at the official rate-Moscow leaked the winner's name: Van Cliburn. Said Pianist Cliburn: "I can't believe it." Then, noting the 10 lbs. he had lost during his harrowing two weeks of competition, he added: "I'd like to go back to Texas. I'm just about to break down...
Nathan had always written his reviews -and 40 books-in longhand; when arteriosclerosis cramped his right hand in 1956, he quit his longtime (13 years) job as drama columnist for Hearst's King Features Syndicate. He dictated his memoirs for Esquire, and last month, in a piece prepared for Theatre Arts magazine's June issue, had his last, impish say on the state of the American theater. "It seems," wrote he, "that we still have with us the volunteer embalmers who are yapping that the theater is dead. The theater will live as long as there...