Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EDWARD L. CLARKE The Bronx...
...boss, one-man Groupthinker Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, bubbled into activity again with a new pro-culture idea called Program Service, a high-class passel of TV shows that Weaver hopes to beam from stations in 15 "great bellwether markets." Aiming to operate above and beyond the ratings rat race. Pat Weaver, anxious to "enlighten and enrich," will soon start sending out signals to "all the mad scientists in the entertainment and information fields to start brewing their heady brews." Meanwhile, Quiz Whiz Charles Van Doren signed an exclusive five-year contract with NBC at a salary "close...
...rendered relatively harmless-without waiting for the substance to be isolated. This reassurance came last week from the man who, since his student days, has been busy amassing proof that heavy, long-continued cigarette smoking is the main cause of the recent dramatic increase in lung cancer: Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, 34, of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute...
Dirty Snowballs. Some astronomers think that comets are swarms of dustlike particles, with a few larger chunks of matter at their centers. Another theory, developed by Astronomer Fred L. Whipple of Harvard, is that they are made mostly of "ices." Out in cold, dark outer space, says Whipple, beyond the last of the planets, wandering molecules of methane, water or ammonia tend to stick together as solids. Gradually snowflakes of a sort form. Attracting one another feebly over millions or billions of years, they gather into sizable bodies of solidified gas peppered with grains of sand or dust. They...
...work out the ideal timing and the ideal winner." The producers chose 70-year-old Mrs. Ethel Richardson of Los Angeles, a folk-song buff. For a switch, they decided the next big winner should be a young schoolboy. They settled on 14-year-old George L. Wright III of Manhattan...