Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lopping off four of the Met's five managers. As for General Manager Edward Johnson, "the mess of red ink on your books ought to tell you that Eddie is badly miscast as bossman of a setup which features 600 Tallulah Bank-heads and a dozen John L. Lewises . . . [but] if he's used only as artistic director, he's well worth his keep...
Last week the Academy swung into action. It purged itself of two of its most noted members: Physiologist L. A. Orbeli and Morphologist I. I. Shmalgauzen; liquidated a laboratory on cytogenetics (the study of cell formation), and accused its director, world-famous Geneticist N. P. Dubinin, of having taken "antiscientific positions." All textbooks on biology were ordered rewritten; teaching will be oriented to the Lysenko doctrine...
...churches at a world level." But what the world mostly heard were sounds of argument. At the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, the chief debate seemed remarkably like the East-West bickering in U.N. The debaters: U.S. Layman John Foster Dulles and Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka...
...bill (Hollywood is forced by law to photograph nothing but stage money). With Secret Service sanction, a commentator pointed out the differences (e.g., on the counterfeit, Hamilton's hair is lighter and whiter). WCAU has also televised pictures of wanted criminals, on the theory, says News Director Harold L. Hadley, that "guys who are wanted will frequent taprooms that have television." Fellow barflies are expected to turn them...
...WASHINGTON, WMAL-TV celebrated the lifting of an FCC ban by presenting "Mentalist" Robert L. Friend. In short order, he reduced three giggling university coeds to a trance-like state (a fourth coed continued to giggle and was excused). Hypnotist Friend, who was careful not to beam his big, brown eyes at the television audience,* will not do another hypnotic show, he says, until televiewers "clamor and clamor and clamor...