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...Trainer. The secret of Cinerama is its outsize, curved screen and six synchronized sound tracks, which combine to give a remarkable illusion of depth (see diagram). Waller's invention got its first rigorous testing during the war as a gunnery trainer, was used by the armed forces to instruct aerial gunners under closely simulated combat conditions. But it was not until last fall that Cinerama, Inc., controlled by the Reeves Soundcraft Corp., developer of the Cinerama sound system, made a deal to put the new medium in show business. The deal gives exclusive commercial rights to Cinerama films...
When Love, thoroughly familiar with Bolles' methods, assumes the varsity spot in the fall, he will continue to instruct the Washington system, having the support of all the present varsity members except Captain Ollie Iselin, the only man in the first eight who is graduating this year. And next year is Olympic Year...
...shown at work on a story about U.N. relief work; Joseph Cotten, cast as a doctor in Peking Express, will be working for the U.N.'s World Health Organization; in The Day the Earth Stood Still, a visitor from another planet (a sort of interplanetary Skot-Hansen) will instruct the earth in how to join a U.N. of the universe...
...pages, which Lampy saw fit to squeeze in among the ads, he has rung in a group of his old editors to entertain, to instruct, and to compliment. In one of these are they notably successful, though they do try hard. Their humor for the most part does not evoke a spontaneous "heh-heh" or even a "haw-haw-haw"; it is of the "well, when you come to think of it this is pretty smooth doggerel" variety...
Latest and most vocal are Representative Paul A. McCarthy and Court Clerk Thomas H. Dorgan who, not content with presenting a bill to outlaw the Communist party in Massachusetts, went gunning on April 2 for "reducators." They produced a bill to "instruct the presidents of the several colleges and schools in the Commonwealth to expel communists or communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs.' It threatens delinquent colleges with the loss of their charters...