Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carl Goldmark, 44, who plays bad chess and good cello, is described by a friend as "part child and part tyrant." Goldmark was discovered by the far-ranging Paul Kesten who,-in 1936, thought CBS should know something about the new medium of television. Peter Goldmark, educated as a physicist in Vienna and Berlin, had already done some TV work in Britain and seemed just the man. Since CBS hired him, the network has invested more than $3,000,000 in his projects...
Though Hopkins scientists are not always polished performers (Poole once had to give a physicist a sharp kick in the shins to keep him within his time limit), Review no longer has much trouble persuading them to appear. By last week, they were receiving fan letters at the rate of 875 a week, fewer than Berle (who doesn't bother to count them anymore), but enough to suggest that there is a TV audience for something besides comics...
...Clark Jones, Polaroid Corporation physicist, said his machine, a small four-tube device similar in appearance to the inside of a midget radio, automatically silences a radio during commercial announcements. It turns the set on again when music returns...
Trooping into & out of a green-walled Manhattan studio one night last week were a Long Island housewife, a Parisian antique dealer, Actress Gertrude Lawrence, two delinquent boys, a city judge, Critic John Mason Brown, an employment agent, an interior decorator, and Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Robert Millikan. When the last interview was over, four hours later, 66-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt appeared to have as much energy as when she started. She also had, tidily recorded on platters, enough material for at least a week of the 45-minute Eleanor Roosevelt Program (Mon. through Fri., 12:30 p.m.) over Manhattan...
...First Marshal at this year's commencement will not be a nationally prominent figure, as has been the case at most previous University graduations. Passing over such men as atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, and author Walter D. Edmonds, the nominating committee of the Class of 1926 has chosen six busimen, active in their own Class' affairs, to be voted on by the other members in an advisory ballot...