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...dramatic shows, conducts and writes music, although he cannot read notes ("I use numbers and arrows, then I call in an arranger and tell him what I want"). His newest hobby, psychic research, may prove profitable, for he is planning a TV show that will try to dramatize psychic phenomena. Having investigated several spiritual mediums already, Gleason reports sadly that "there are an awful lot of frauds in that business...
...Broadway version of Georges Bizet's grand opera seems sure to be a big hit. It also seems likely that the picture will fling somewhat wider the gates of opportunity for Negro entertainers in Hollywood. For in this picture the actors present themselves not merely as racial phenomena but as individuals, and they put across a Carmen that may blister the rear walls of many a movie house...
According to Dr. Yasuo Miyake, of the Japanese government's Meteorological Research Organization in Tokyo, the detection measures four phenomena: 1) disturbances of atmospheric pressure, 2) variations of tide level (if the explosion is oceanic), 3) variations in atmospheric electricity, 4) radioactivity in rain...
Your July 12 coverage of the demise of the last great, and perhaps greatest, yacht-building institution-the Henry B. Nevins yard-brings considerable remorse to people who watch the changing American scene with an evaluative eye. The economic phenomena which have brought such great institutions as this to their knees can only be described as ''creeping socialism," and it is, in my mind, gradually undermining the whole structure of American society . . . Although I ... would never be able to own one of Mr. Nevins' boats ... I would and will defend to my death the rights of more...
...university lifts the college student out of his collegian environment and thrusts him into an educated community. It is a Harvard phenomena that no man is known as "The Big Man on Campus" because there is no central Harvard campus. But it is characteristic of Harvard that the main building of the college is also the main building of the university