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...committed. Subtly, the camera follows him through the unsympathetic crowds to the rides and refreshment counters. It catches his disappointment when his fast ball fails to topple a pyramid of milk bottles and his animation when riding on a merry-go-round. Occasionally he slips behind a lamp post to evade the glance of a policeman, but these are unimportant interruptions to his wonderment...
...Studio One, sponsor Westinghouse has brilliantly faced up to some difficult situations. One script was turned down at the last minute when a sure-eyed adman found that its plot revolved about a leaky refrigerator. And, to protect the tender sensibilities of Westinghouse's lamp department, Studio One obligingly switched the title of Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed to The Gathering Night...
...Clinic moved to its present quarters, formerly a two-monthly dwelling, in 1929. Its first symptoms of psychology appeared a few years later; many walls were wired for sound and a portable table lamp equipped with a microphone filled in the gaps. All microphones fed into a huge recording machine in the basement, while a drum on the library wall conceals a separate sound system. The "bamboo room," now used for seminars, was then an observation chamber for Cambridge children at play. Behind a one way mirror, a psychologist could record his impressions of them...
Although the Second World war made "walls with ears" a national cliche, it also cut the supply of recording disks, and the cloak-and-dagger atmosphere left the Clinic for good. The observation roof was wall-papered and the audio-lamp disappeared. Only the dining-room recorder, now covered with dust remains...
...Commission for permission to build an atomic power plant at AEC's Hanford Works near Richland, Wash. The multimillion-dollar plant would produce plutonium as well as electric power. Said G.E.'s President Ralph J. Cordiner: "The most significant [industry] pronouncement . . . since the invention of the incandescent lamp...