Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range is not long enough to carry TV programs across the Atlantic in one hop, but relay stations using Greenland and Iceland as stepping stones can do the trick. Other continents could be reached in the same way without too much difficulty. TV Pioneer Allen B. Du Mont stated at the conference that there is now no electronic reason why nearly all the world should not watch the same TV program at the same time...
...disciple of Adams rather than Gibbon, Medievalist Allan Temko, 31, has put his love and knowledge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame into an astute and eloquent book that merits shelfroom with Adams' famed Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. But while Adams sought out only the major thread of medieval unity, Author Temko weaves a tapestry of multiplicity-within-unity. Along with the rising cathedral walls, he traces the rise of the Capetian monarchs to rule Paris, the rise of Paris to rule France, the rise of French Gothic to rule an age. "The Church clothes her stones...
Point of Honor. In Great Falls, Mont., picked up on a drunk charge, Louis Cadoret was fined twice the usual amount after he insisted to police that his occupation be listed as "professional shoplifter...
...Helena, Mont...
...Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to pretend that he was madly in love with her (a role often filled last year by Actor Cesar Romero). Jackie Gleason is back with The Honeymooners, but the show is now filmed by the Electronicam method, which Gleason and the system's inventors (Du Mont) insist is just as good as live TV, from the evidence of the first two shows, not all of Gleason's audience will agree: on film, the battles between Jackie and Audrey Meadows seemed longer and less funny, while Art Carney's sewer-born impetuosities have lost their...