Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bella Spewack, it became a hit on Broadway, and is still running in London and Australia. Now the fable about three Devil's Island convicts who put their illegal talents to work for an inept but honest businessman turns up in VistaVision, starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov...
...overwhimsical film version suffers because Director Michael Curtiz seems unable to decide whether he is reading from a fairy tale or a police blotter. Sometimes the archness is laid on with a trowel, sometimes the trifling action stops dead for overdetailed explanations. Bogart plays his role pretty straight; Aldo Ray is disconcertingly elfin for an alleged sex fiend; and Ustinov's mugging seems overdone. Basil Rathbone and John Baer wander onscreen long enough to look properly villainous. Joan Bennett and Gloria Talbott add their pretty confusions to the artificial turmoil. Technicolor gives the picture a fairly handsome mounting...
...Cosmic rays," said Professor H. V. Neher of Caltech, "have for years been regarded as a means of justifying travel to remote areas of the world." Dr. Neher's latest ray-hunting junket was to one of the world's least seductive places, the North Magnetic Pole in barren arctic Canada. Last week he told a Pasadena meeting of the American Physical Society about the results of the trip...
...knows yet where cosmic ray particles come from. A few may originate in rare solar "flares," but most of them come from farther space. The fastest particles pack an enormous punch, up to 1016 ev (10 million billion electron volts) of energy. To accelerate a flea to this speed, said Neher, would require all the energy released by a hydrogen bomb...
...flamboyant care, Auntie is in her Japanese phase. Child-rearing brings out her progressive education phase. Little Pat is enrolled in a "divine new school that a friend of mine is starting. Coeducational and completely revolutionary. All classes are held in the nude under ultra violet ray. Not a repression left after the first semester." Pat is just working up his first good tan when the shocked male trustee of his estate puts an end to repression-shedding and the divine new school: "Over delicately retouched photographs of . . . the student body were [newspaper] headlines such as SEX SCHOOL SEIZED, with...