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Giant. In a big (3, hrs. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...
...than twice the number that saw the 1952 shows. This meant that 88% of all TV homes saw one or more sessions of each convention over one of the three chains. Daily audiences ranged from 23 million to 27 million homes. ¶TV homes watching the Democrats averaged 9 hrs. 39 min. each. For Republicans: 7 hrs. 22 min. The discrepancy is due primarily to the fact that the Democrats used afternoon and evening time for five days; the G.O.P. wound things up in four evenings, only one afternoon. ¶Peak viewing (17.8 million homes) for the Democrats came during...
Radio also boasted a sizable turnout: ¶Twenty-one million U.S. families listened to some part of the Democratic Convention. Homes tuning in averaged 6 hrs. 1 min. each. During the shorter G.O.P. week the total audience hit 15.6 million homes, for a listening average of 3 hrs. 23 min. per home. ¶Daily audiences ranged from 6.5 million to 13 million homes, averaging 10.2 million homes a day for the Democrats, 8.2 million for the Republicans. ¶Peak radio audiences (4 million) were clocked in during the early afternoon on the opening day of each convention...
...irregular bursts of 11-meter radio waves from Venus. Every day he measured a rough peak of radio activity, and the peaks came earlier each day by a little less than two hours. After diagraming the peaks, Dr. Kraus concluded that Venus revolves on its axis in about 22 hrs...
...week following some of the nation's finest opposition around the green fields of the Southern Territory, picking up sun tan and bruises and perhaps a little wisdom. At week's end, they piled into their bus and followed the blizzard from Annapolis to Boston. Road time: 20 hrs...