Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, Jan. 24). Subtitled Seven Rituals of Music, it moves from a wispy, tender "music for a child asleep" into a too-thunderous "ritual of work," a syncopated "dance and play" movement with a xylophone that sounds as if it were made of china, to a movement of whispering magic and a fugal finale...
DAVY CROCKETT BATTLE between Walt Disney and Baltimore's Davy Crockett Enterprises over the right to use the magic name ( TIME, May 23) has been settled. After filing counter lawsuits and promising a bitter court fight, both sides will sign a master cross-licensing agreement that will let both lease the trademark to manufacturers and split the profits...
President Maurice E. Paradise, of Na tional Fabricated Products, is sure that the solar batteries can be made much more cheaply. He hopes that eventually the magic silicon can be sprayed on a sur face as a crystalline metallic varnish. Then really big batteries will be cheap. They are rugged and last practically forever. A house roofed with sun-absorbing silicon could generate all the current it needs whenever the sun is shining...
ACTH, expensively extracted from the pituitary glands of cattle, also helps many a disease, such as arthritis, but the magic compound, unfortunately, is anything but simple. It is a polypeptide, a large molecule (molecular weight 4,500) made up of many amino-acid units arranged in a long chain. Chemists have puzzled over its structure for years, but have learned only bits and scraps about it. Polypeptides (related to proteins) are baffling things to deal with...
...tragicomedy of Katharine the Shrewd and Kate the Romantic is played out against the overpowering Technicolor backdrop of Venice. At first. Katharine is all businesslike competence: she industriously snaps photos, craftily measures out tips, keeps her basilisk eye fixed warily on the untrustworthy Italians. But then the Venetian magic begins; she throws open her pensione window to a vista of blue sky, green water and honey-colored walls. She walks along the canals, dazed by the murmurous dusk, by the majesty of campanile and palace, by the whisper of a distant guitar. Few actresses in films could equal Hepburn...