Word: lofts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scientists Made Human. The narrator who gives the show identity and continuity is CBS News Commentator Charles Collingwood, a suave guide who, in the course of his duties, has wrestled with a loft. alligator, struggled with an 18-ft. anaconda, plunged into the Atlantic in January, and urbanely commented on under sea matters through a diver's helmet 30 ft. below the surface of the Pacific. Collingwood once also gave his audience an authentic South American recipe, with step-by-step illustrations, on how to shrink a human head. An actual shrunken head was, of course, in camera range...
...next pre-sunup chore was an esthetic delight; it dealt with 20 top-quality Angus steers soon to be translated into dollars and cents at the Tennessee Fat Cattle Show. Joe snapped on the lights in the main barn, climbed into the loft and scooped measured feed mixtures into the chute leading to the cattle shed below...
Swinging down from the loft, Joe took a shaker of sulfa powder to the barn's northeast stall and tenderly dusted the mangled ankle flesh of a calf. A few weeks before, the calf had been taken away from its mother, one of Joe's six milk cows. First night away, the weaning calf tried to climb the wall of a barn stall. Next morning Joe found the struggling animal hanging by its right forefoot, caught high in a crack and badly cut. Old Sam Carver, neighbors remember, had hands as gentle...
Stix started his gallery in a Greenwich Village loft during the Depression. His aim was to help out artists who, then as now, were galleryless. The opening was a shock: with 500 invitations out and 72 chilled martinis and Manhattans ordered up from the bar downstairs, Stix sweated through 2½ hours before his first-and only-guest showed up. The guest turned out to be an artist wanting a show for his watercolors. But today the gallery is a must for art critics and gallery owners on the hunt for dark horses...
...couldn't get enough of it. The figures about compression ratios were just as dazzling to those who didn't understand them. But the statistical inspiration finally got tedious, and no one was sorry to see the General Motors Philharmonic take their seats in the 13-foot high choir loft to begin the G.M. Broadway revue called, "Looking...