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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago a California radar technician died after exposure to high-powered microwaves. Why? The examining doctor's explanation was that the microwaves caused "intolerable" heating of the man's tissues. Biologist John H. Heller doubted this explanation, suspected that the microwaves had somehow fatally altered the body's cells. To find out, he began experimenting with lower-powered radio waves at the New England Institute for Medical Research in Ridgefield, Conn. Last week in Britain's Nature, he and Dr. A. A. Teixeira-Pinto reported that their experiments had provided "a new physical method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Influence by Radio | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Richard A. Heller of Flushing, N.Y. has discovered what is wrong with American diplomats [Jan. 5]: Secretary of State Dulles has been dunking a cracker in milk in public. Who doesn't? Dulles is known and admired throughout the free world. But who the hell is Heller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Television air waves were "empty and hungry" when Chicago Lawyer Milton Gordon set out to appease the hunger in 1953. As a vice president of Walter E. Heller & Co., Gordon worked on movie financing, helped launch United Artists (TIME, April 28), saw the need of small stations for television films. Teaming up with Hollywood Producer Edward Small, Gordon formed Television Programs of America, Inc. as a production and distribution company. Into T.P.A. Gordon and Small put $125,000 apiece, bought their first series. Ramar of the Jungle, for $100,000. In the era before Hollywood features became standard late-show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: How to Make Marbles | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...HELLER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...keep the company going, Krim borrowed $3,750,000 from Chicago Financier Walter E. Heller, who still backs many U.A. films. To get movies for U.A. to distribute, Krim bought the distribution rights for 200 films from Robert R. Young's Eagle Lion B-picture company, swiftly sold them to distributors for cheap, middle-of-the-week pictures. Within four months the company turned a profit, and Benjamin and Krim got half the stock. U.A. bought out the rest later, issued $17 million in stock and convertible debentures a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Hollywood Happy Ending | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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