Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adapter also hit on the idea of having Shaw himself deliver a prologue and brief between-scenes commentary. This material was drawn both from the playwright's voluminous preface and from the postscript that Shaw wrote in 1944 for the Oxford Press' new edition of the play. Felix Deebank, dressed and made up to look exactly like Shaw, delivers all this in fine brogue-tinged fashion...
...rush. With a six-artist show that included half a dozen space-whirling abstractions by Chicago Second Prizewinner James Brooks (TIME, Jan. 21), opening night drew a crowd of more than 600. Says Artist Alfonso Ossorio, whose 8-ft.-by-r.2-ft. abstraction, Advent, dominates the show: "Our idea is to show that the era of discovery and evolution is not over." Judged by one standard, the artists seemed to be making their point: sales for the first week totaled...
...party was the idea of Antonia's father, Dr. Charles Stevens, who firmly believes that the way to protect his daughters against the danger of having stillborn or malformed children as a result of German measles (rubella) infection early in pregnancy (TIME, Dec. 31) is to make sure they catch the disease long before they are married. So far the virus has not been grown well enough to prepare a vaccine, so the only way a girl can get a case -and lifelong immunity-is from direct exposure to another victim. If Antonia catches it, incubation will take...
...years. Furthermore, moonlighting is a powerful argument in itself against the shorter week, and against short hours v. the acquisitive nature of man. At an A.F.L.-C.I.O. conference on the shorter workweek in Washington, George Brooks, research director for the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, attacked the idea that workers themselves want shorter hours.' Said Brooks: "The evidence is all on; the other side. Hundreds of union officials have testified that the most; numerous and persistent grievances are from men deprived of a chance to make overtime pay. Workers are eager to increase their income, not to work...
...courtyard one day last week, Army Secretary Wilber Brucker bestowed the largest cash reward ever made by the Army for an employee suggestion: a $10,000 joint award to Stanislaus Danko. 41, and Moe Abramson, 45, career employees at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Their idea: an automation process that punches holes in regular printed or etched electronic circuits, drops the leads of components (resistors, tubes) through the holes, dips the leads in a solder bath, soldering all connections in one operation. The Government made the system available free to electronics firms, saved...