Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home to go into show business. His grandfather, Oscar Hammerstein I, was a kind of highbrow P. T. Barnum with a passion for opera. A short, stubby man with a truculent Vandyke and a shining topper, Oscar I roamed the world founding opera houses and losing fortunes in the process of trying to rival the Metropolitan. His sons, William (who managed the famed Victoria which Oscar I built) and Arthur (who became a well-known theatrical producer) were distressed by this operamania. "I wish the hell," Oscar II remembers hearing them say, "the old man would stay out of opera...
...process they built up a spirit and tradition that seems still to linger. The veterans of the 1946 team still tell the stories of their battles with and for Boston...
Last week a surgeon suggested that plastic surgery can reverse the process and make a bad man better. Dr. John F. Pick of Chicago has been testing this theory for eleven years by remolding the faces-and hence the characters, he hopes-of convicts at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary. It does not always work, Dr. Pick reports. But he assured the International College of Surgeons in Chicago that of 376 convicts released after plastic surgery, less than 1% have since got into trouble (without surgery, 17% come back for parole violations...
...Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., customers lined up by the hundred this week to have their pictures taken. But these were not ordinary photos; they gave the illusion of being three-dimensional. The new process, called VitaVision, was the latest moneymaker of Matthew Fox, cinemaker and Bub-O-Loon man (TIME, Sept...
...into VitaVision through his longtime friend, Writer-Producer Gene Towne, who had bought the rights to some 200 patents that went into VitaVision. VitaVision requires special cameras, paper and developing process. The key is a thin, transparent plastic screen, in effect a lens, which is laminated to the finished picture. By performing the same optical trick as a stereoscope, it gives the picture the illusion of depth...