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...week it was a tree bursting into full growth from an acorn planted a moment before. Another time it was a water pail apparently defying the law of gravitation. A regular Garroway feature is his "girl multiplier," that once put 64 identical shots of pert Singer Bette Chapel on the TV screen at one time. Most of the stunts owe their success to a pair of studio carpenters named Weeland Risser and Ralph Doremus,who,in their pre-TV days, happened to work for Magicians Thurston and Blackstone...
...prop man. Other tricks depend on shrewd camera work, as when dancers' costumes change from black to white and, gradually, back to black again, simply by reversing the polarity (i.e., changing a positive picture to a negative picture) on the camera. The falling and rising water pail was more complicated. A tiny pail the size of a thimble was mounted on a transparent plastic disc which revolved in front of a revolving drum on which the background was painted. By reversing the disc, the pail seemed to fall up or down; by stopping both disc and drum, the pail...
...Pail." Managing Editor Jones snapped up the news coverage. He hired good reporters and rewrite men to turn out crisp, accurate copy, set up the Post's national bureau to cover official Washington. Now staffed by such old-timers as Eddie Folliard, Al Friendly and Ferdinand Kuhn (at State), it is still one of the capital's best bureaus...
...winter day in Labrador some 30 years ago, a fur trader named Clarence Birdseye caught a fish, watched it freeze instantly in the 50° below zero temperature. Days later, he dropped the fish into a pail of water to thaw it out, was amazed to see the fish flip its tail and swim about. Birdseye decided that he had "unlocked one of nature's secrets"-and also hit upon a new way to preserve food. When he returned to civilization (i.e., his home in Gloucester, Mass.), he developed a mechanical quick-freezing process and thereby laid the foundation...
Procedure: pick a spot in a stream or lake and lower a pail of chopped vegetables to it every day for a week. By that time the carp, who are mainly vegetarians, should be using that spot for a feeding ground. A ball of half-baked dough or a piece of half-boiled vegetable is good for bait. Cast it near the feeding ground, give it a foot of slack line, "set" the hook as soon as the outsmarted carp starts moving away. If he is played away from his feeding ground, "other carp will not be frightened...