Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miller, Tad Mosel, David Shaw-almost all of whom have abandoned TV. As a producer (Du Pont Show of the Month) and the Custer of live TV drama (TIME, June 2), Susskind wanted to know why the writers had given up. Why not stay in the medium that produced Chayevsky's Marty and Arthur's A Man Is Ten Feet Tall? Their answer: because writing for stage or screen makes a man 20 feet tall-and a lot richer...
Nameless Progenitor. Dr. Calvin sees chemical evolution fairly clearly up to DNA, but he cannot say just when the spark of life appeared. The best test of life is that the organism can make replicas of itself, taking as building materials the simpler molecules in the medium around it. The first organism to pass this divide between the living and the inert may have been a single complex molecule or a large cluster of them. This tiny, nameless primogenitor of all living matter may have used some primitive kind of photosynthesis to reproduce itself. Or perhaps it merely picked...
Underlying Life. Even more surprising as a whole are Wyeth's new watercolors, pictures done swiftly in passion. His instinct for the medium has grown out of discipline, and his command of it is athletic-brushmanship like swordsmanship. Wyeth's Cormorants inhabit a small island off the Maine coast, near his summer home. "I rowed over," Wyeth says in his high, dry voice. "There was a terrific shrieking and neck-turning. The picture took only half an hour, but the birds kept dropping on me all the time. There was a strange feeling of aloneness -of the cormorants...
...pranced aboard the Navy submarine U.S.S. Trout in New London, Conn. Purpose: to play hostess on NBC-TV's Omnibus documentary on submarine training. It was Producer Robert Saudek's idea, based on the theory that "many aspects of submarine navigation are similar to swimming." Esther, whose medium is cold water, poured plenty of it on officers' wives jammed in the New London officers' club to meet her, icily asked them to leave so she could "talk business" with their husbands. Later Esther slid down the Trout hatch in a skirt that swung all eyes...
...Americans who could be called an "authority" on existentialism, Professor Earle is visiting from Northwestern during the fall term, after which he will have a year's leave of absence to write a book. A medium-sized, broad-shouldered Midwesterner, he is characterized by horn-rimmed glasses and an intense gaze and manner...