Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broadcasting history, all three networks pooled their talent on NBC's Wide Wide World last week to help TV celebrate its first decade. The result was a kind of family photograph album-a little faded, and brown with nostalgia. There was more fun than focus as The Fabulous Infant paraded 90 minutes of TV's past. The laconic Frank Costello grumbled again to the Kefauver committee: "Under no condition will I testify until I'm well enough," and Ed Wynn goggled on-screen to explain why his girl is so fastidious: "Her father's fast...
Isidor Isaac Rabi, 59, shy, good-humored Columbia University professor of physics is chairman of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee. The Austrian-born son of a tailor, he was brought to the U.S. as an infant. In 1944 he won the Nobel Prize for discovering a new method of measuring and studying the magnetic properties of the atomic nucleus. "Some people," he says, "turn to science as a career to make a living, others because somebody they admire tremendously is a scientist. And then there are those who just can't help it-like me. I knocked...
...achieve her rightful place in the world, having learned that she is actually the daughter of King Hydaspes of Ethiopia. Because Charicleia was born white, her terrified mother, Queen Persinna, had exposed her on a mountainside to escape the wrath of the King, but a kindly merchant found the infant and saw that she was transported safely to Greece. Before she can make it home. Charicleia is captured by pirates, sold into slavery, cast into a dungeon, poisoned, sentenced to be burned at the stake. She often shocks the rather priggish Theagenes by escaping her fate through cajolery and subterfuge...
...turn-of-the-century, storybook quality but whose draftsmanship rated a "jolly able, jolly competent" from one British artist. Most original works were by Leonid Soifertis, staffer on the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil, whose casual hand turns out cartoons that rate a Soviet belly laugh, e.g., a dig at infant prodigies that shows a child with huge bull fiddle, both of which have to be carried on the stage. These were rare high points. The show was best described by British Artist Paul Hogarth, who said: "This is pretty dull...
...infant African nation of Ghana began life with high hopes that Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and his ruling party would show enough statesmanship to win the cooperation of the minorities in Ashanti and the Northern Territories. But the richer, more highly educated Ashantis, controlling the country's one big cash crop (cocoa), have agitated so articulately for upcountry rights that Nkrumah's less literate supporters, unable to talk them down, have resorted to highhanded repression. By the most arbitrary of these measures the government deported two Ashanti Moslem leaders on the ground that their presence was "not conducive...