Word: mediumsized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In rich Technicolor, the Houdini career is followed from struggling carnival magician to the world's best known illusionist. The movie ends with his death in 1926 at the age of 52 while he was suspended upside down in a strait jacket in a huge tank of water (actually...
While a daily review of radio and television offerings demands above all discerning humour, Crosby recognizes the constructive role of the critic as well. He vigorously assaults the "proof" of Hooper ratings that audiences are content with the present quality of broadcasts and asserts that adequate leadership from the broadcasters...
The contract grew out of a lunch with RCA President Frank Folsom at which Sherwood complained that radio & TV were the only mediums in which writers have no contact with the heads of the industry. Folsom announced that NBC was happy "to grant the artistic freedom which all fine authors...
While there seems to have been no bona-fide clairvoyants, the campus boasted a surplus of phonies. Mental telepathy and thought transmission had become the latest fad in an era where undergraduates bit eagerly at any dish labeled exotic. There was Margery, who claimed telepathy limbs, and Dr. and Mrs...
Lucio Fontana, 53, who founded the spatialist school in Buenos Aires six years ago, also submitted a display. It was a spinning, nebular mass perforated with hundreds of tiny holes and lighted from the back. "We conceive of art," says Head Spatialist Fontana, "as the sum of physical elements-color...