Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belafonte's associates credit him with an uncanny instinct for avoiding overexposure and repetition. He has been going light on the nightclub circuit in favor of more cross-country tours to college campuses and small-town auditoriums. He feels that direct contact with such audiences revitalizes his performances. As a shrewd showman, he refuses to appear regularly on television because he dislikes both the overexposure of TV and the fact that it can rarely offer him the time to develop a finished show. He also refuses to plug his own hits indiscriminately. Having kicked off the calypso boom...
...White House. The son of a Brooklyn coffee merchant, Murray Snyder worked his way up from sportswriter on the San Antonio Light to political reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Invited to the White House by Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty in 1953, Snyder put in four years as Hagerty's assistant. He has attempted to quiet some of his critics by saying that the public information policies he follows come straight from the White House...
Perkin Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. Each "eye" is 3 in. in diameter but weighs only 3.5 oz. The telescopes are not producing photographic images, but are capable of detecting contrasts of light (clouds are usually brighter than land, land brighter than oceans...
...churches must keep books as well as the Book. One of the odder financial problems besetting the Roman Catholic Church came to light in Lourdes last week. The occasion: a stern message to his flock from Bishop Pierre-Marie Théas of Tarbes and Lourdes, a churchman who has long battled commercialization of France's famed shrine (TIME, July 21). This time Bishop Théas' anger was aimed at Lourdes' own Roman Catholic Information Center: "Henceforth Catholics must, as a matter of conscience, abstain from membership, gifts or subscriptions [to the center]. The presence...
...huge dowry for his daughter, start paying off every member of the bridegroom's family with lavish presents of cash and sweetmeats as soon as the engagement is announced. The ideal wedding must be a stunningly beautiful rite that lasts for days, with thousands of gaily colored electric-light bulbs adorning the house, an ornate marquee and a team of cooks to gorge scores of guests. For generations the ancient custom has wiped out families' life savings, made newborn daughters a sure sign of bad luck...