Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eli Wallach, a method actor who took the trouble to learn acting as well as method, as a crusading Puerto Rican lawyer in New York...
...Defiant Ones. Two escaped convicts (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier) loathe each other, but since they are bound together at the wrist by a chain, they eventually learn a brutal, moving lesson about brotherhood...
...first nuclear reactor, and with King Paul, Frederika has become a student of nuclear physics. "For my part," she told a TIME reporter last week, "although I know that radioactive isotopes and such are of great medical benefit, I am really most interested in theoretical physics. You have to learn something about it to have this interest. But now that I do-I want to understand what goes on inside the atom." Then, at week's end, with the ceremonial functions out of the way, Queen Frederika started on a self-educating tour...
...Papa Mariles, "she has a very strong character and lots of courage. Berto, he is more quiet, his trouble is he don't turn the corners too well. Vicki, she turns those corners very well. She knows that is how you save time, but she still has to learn one important thing. You see, when a horse is racing fast, he flattens out across the jump. When he comes down, you have to encourage him a little-go 'Hah! Hah! Hah!' in his ear to help him go over the next jump...
...tinkering never ceased. (In 1947 he even dashed off a note to Los Alamos suggesting how to build an H-bomb.) What he could not learn from encyclopedias Behlen picked up by sending postcards to big manufacturers to learn their methods-and most cooperated. Says he: "I never could have stayed in business without Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers...