Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, being a written medium, surely realizes the importance of a writer. In reviewing Indiscreet [July 21] you toss kudos, deserved I'm sure, to Stanley Donen, the director; you do nip-ups over the magnificent performances of Ingrid Bergman and Gary Grant; but for some curious reason you neglect to mention the name of the author. It is Norman Krasna. I repeat his name is Norman Krasna. I only mention it twice because you failed to mention it once...
American Airlines President C. R. Smith last week made official a report that had skittered through the aviation industry for weeks. He had signed contracts for 50 new medium-range jet planes, thus bringing to no the number of jets slated for delivery to American between October 1958 and the end of 1962-more new equipment than has been ordered by any other airline in the world. Smith also sprang a new financing idea for planes: instead of buying the jet engines for the planes, the line will lease them from the manufacturers, save itself $80 million in initial cost...
...other 25 planes just ordered will be smaller, lighter versions of Boeing's transcontinental 707. They will cruise at 601 m.p.h., have a range of 1,850 miles, go into service in 1960. Previously ordered by American: 25 long-haul Boeing 707s, 35 short-to-medium-range Lockheed Electra turboprops...
Professional critics were quick with praise. Said the New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby: "The Near East crisis gave TV a chance to hold its head up for a change and act like a responsible medium of expression. If Nasser has nothing else to his credit, he can, on the day of judgment, say he got three giveaways [For Love or Money, Play Your Hunch, Dotto...
Still, on the whole, Carter handled well the many problems of timbre and balance presented by this odd medium, though in a few places he smothered the low register of the flute. The Lento was the most appealing movement, with its recurring effective series of chord clusters on the harpsichord and its busy, feathery middle section, which seemed to be Carter's idea of a modern Queen Mab scherzo...