Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astrophysics, to expound the word of many religions, to give them Shakespeare, O'Neill and Wyatt Earp-and Twenty One. But as he faced the House subcommittee last week, the man who was personally responsible for bringing most of its quiz shows to NBC ("And I'm not ashamed of it") reflected little of television's potential magic. The same witness chair had been occupied for four days by a tawdry succession of fixers and schlockmeisters, corrupters and corrupted (see above). Bob Kintner had gone to Washington with the difficult task of showing that...
...spawned 10% of all network shows, now also save on overhead by shopping for their clients among the packagers. The ubiquitous package firms range in size from giants, e.g., Revue Productions Inc., dog-wagging tail of the Music Corp. of America, which grossed $38 million on its filmed series (M Squad, Wagon Train) last year, down to one-shot independents, e.g., Jack (Lassie) Wrather. The range is qualitative as well: Independent Robert Saudek has won Emmys and Peabody Awards for Omnibus, while Warner Bros, ground out ephemeral, low-budget shoot...
...that even making his image is rarely undertaken except by direct appointment by the Orixás (gods). Top Bahian devilmaker today is Reginaldo Andrade Costa, 28, a part-time garage mechanic who agreed to make them only when a regal candomblé priestess known as a mãe do santo (mother of the saint) explained that the iron figures were harmless until "blessed." His raw material is scrap iron, but Costa's crudely formed statuettes are striking embodiments of evil, have the authority of images born of the terror of unquestioning belief...
...city's fast-blooming supermarkets stopped at a small butchershop to ask directions. "You mean the plague?" growled the butcher. "It's around the corner." The butcher had reason to growl. Since the first U.S.-style self-service markets opened in Europe a few years ago, "la méthode américaine" has sparked a revolution in food retailing. The familiar cubbyhole specialty store, with its high prices and limited stock, is on the way out. Rising to replace it is the big, flashy market that offers customers everything from plastic-packaged carrots to caviar, silk stockings...
...Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The redoubtable dunce of the immigrant English class is back, just as funny as ever...