Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cloud cover of the earth. Later versions may eventually take pictures with real cameras. If the satellite is recovered intact, the films can be developed on earth. Another possible trick would be to have the pictures developed automatically on board the-satellite and sent to earth by facsimile radio. A good telescopic camera orbiting several hundred miles up might photograph objects as small as Russian military bases...
...bring the satellite back to earth at a desired place and time, designers expect to employ a retrorocket, which will be fired to reduce its speed at the chosen moment and spot. A parachute will slow it further, and a radio will shout an S O S. Finding the satellite with its undeveloped films or its beat-up "primate" should not be much harder than finding a missile's nose cone...
...American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, emerged in Depression-ridden 1933 when there were only six plays on Broadway. He ate one daily meal at an actors' soup kitchen, posed for sinister pictures in True Story Magazine. After several lean years, he got steady work in radio soap operas. He soon played in three shows a day at $30 apiece, often did 25 a week...
...years the work was profitable but depressingly anonymous. What finally got Backus better known was turning the lampshade boor into a radio character. Name: Hubert Updyke III, a hilarious snob who insisted that his ancestors landed at Cadillac Rock. Hubert bought cars by the gross, drove around with Guy Lombardo's Royal "Canoodians" instead of a radio, had a little man on the hood to work as a windshield wiper...
Stand the Pain. After three years with Updyke on radio. Backus fell into a fat part as the judge on TV's now-defunct I Married Joan comedy series, whose reruns are still "in orbit." Discovered at last, Backus made 47 feature movies (best role: James Dean's father in Rebel Without a Cause). But Backus ("always too early or too late'') began his movie career at the start of Hollywood's slump. He often suspects that papa was right. Once that businesslike gentleman from Cleveland sniffed scornfully around the movie lots, pronounced one studio...