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...citation particularly mentions Whipple's work with satellite-tracking programs at the University Observatory on Garden St. and 12 other stations in the United States and foreign countries. He has also organized the "Moonwatch" network, which has stations in all parts of the world...
Inverse Ratio. Formed ten years ago, Four Star is actually run by three stars (Powell, David Niven and Charles Boyer) and ex-Adman Tom McDermott. "We are one of the three largest producers of network television programming in the industry," says Powell. "I won't be satisfied until we're the biggest-and we will be." Starting out with the old Four Star Playhouse and later booming with the five-year run of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, the company has been all over TV, with as many as 13 series running at one time...
Scientists will now re-examine the argument that a practical system can be developed for monitoring a test ban. As they check on future tests, the scientists will be helped by a network of ultrasensitive seismographs that the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey has begun to install in 65 countries strung around the globe. Officially, those seismographs are there to record the world's earthquakes, but there is no way to keep them from detecting bomb waves also...
...Oxygen. Then in 1949 he began the TV parlay that soon made him television's No. 1 star. He started with Cavalcade of Starpon the old Dumont network, a variety show during the course of which he developed the Gleason characters that were to become as nationally familiar as the face on the $1 bill: Reggie Van Gleason, the patrician sot; Charlie Bratton, the loudmouth; the Poor Soul, who always got into trouble trying to do things for other people; Joe the Bartender, the 3? philosopher-all played by Gleason and all representing some aspect of Gleason himself...
...scriptwriters." Nonetheless, the company thought enough of his talents to agree to pay him $100,000 a year every year from 1957 through 1972. Gleason does not have to work for the money. It is paid to him simply to keep him from working for any other network. He called the $100,000 "peanuts." but he took it anyway. It represented another concession from what he calls "the hierarchy"-a general term he often uses to indicate all the "frat-pin boys," the college men with diplomas who make the ultimate rules by which he has to live...