Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hawaii's Carl ("Bobo") Olson and England's Randy Turpin have much in common. Both are 25-year-old middleweights who learned their fighting in slum streets, both have been boxing since their early teens, and both have suffered stinging defeats at the fists of Sugar Ray Robinson, now retired. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, a sellout crowd of 18,869 turned out to watch Olson and Turpin fight for Robinson's old crown...
Defenders of photography as a true art form retort that no work of art is possible without, to some extent, copying outside models, or without the intervention of some accident-the chance ray of light on a sitter, the stray bit of dialogue overheard in the street. The photographer uses his artistic imagination by choosing his subject, by lighting and posing it, by emphasizing some details and cutting out others. But photographers are forever haunted by the technical ease with which they can reproduce reality. Almost since photography began, they have been alternating between the "fever of reality" and cold...
Metal Magic. At the National Metal Congress in Cleveland, the industry took the wraps off some of its newest metallurgical gadgets. Among them: a lightweight, 145-lb. industrial X-ray machine made by North American Philips Co. Inc., which can be carried in the trunk of a car, used for rapid spot checks on welds, pipelines, aircraft and ship equipment; a powerful new arc-torch made by the Eutectic Welding Alloys Corp. which can eat through concrete in seconds; a hydrogen analysis machine made by the National Research Corp. which for the first time can measure the amount of hydrogen...
...Time. But for Bob Young's ministers and their wives the psychiatric sessions have opened new vistas. "For 2½ years," says the .Rev. James L. Ray, 29, of the First Methodist Church in Auburn, Neb. (pop. 3,422), "I worked with a church youth group, in Lincoln, and I never had one young person come in for personal counsel. Then one night I talked about what I've been learning these last two years-dynamic psychiatry. The next week seven young people came in for personal talks, and they've been coming ever since...
...President Robert M. Weitman, a Broadway-wise showman who turned Manhattan's Paramount Theater into a mint by combining its first-run movies with name bands and singers, was called in as chief talent scout. Showman Weitman brought home a choice selection of what he calls "flesh": Dancer Ray Bolger, Professional Toastmaster George Jessel, Hoofer Paul Hartman, Nightclub Comedian Danny Thomas, Child Star Brandon De Wilde, Cinemactress Arlene Dahl. All began their ABC labors during the past month in sponsored programs which are, on the whole, first-rate. Except for De Wilde and Jessel (who roams the network with...