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Rabbit & Witch. U.S. television screens also swarm with puppets, and U.S. moppets also react enthusiastically. Probably the most popular U.S. marionette is NBC's Howdy Doody,* a drawling, cow-country character who cavorts through a half-hour show with M.C. Bob Smith. In Chicago, Burr Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran and Ollie is not only the best children's show but has been called the best show of any kind on Midwestern TV. Puppets Kukla and Ollie are, respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stars on Strings | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...started. Being heavy, they sink gradually toward the center of the star. As they sink, they approach one another. When they get close enough, a chain reaction is set off. Its heat and radiation make the star expand until the fissionable materials in it are too far apart to react any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nature's Atom Bombs | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...crash of falling governments had rudely reminded the U.S. State Department of an unpleasant fact: something was radically wrong with its Latin American policy. In eight weeks, a succession of military coups had toppled three governments, threatened two others; until last week the U.S. had failed to react...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Awakening | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...requiring annual election of officers may react similarly to the disadvantage of industrial peace. The bill obviously aims at labor leaders who become so firmly entrenched politically that even the dissatisfaction of a majority of the workers cannot dislodge them. The problem of dealing with such leaders is indeed a great one. All honest laborites would welcome its solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor Referenda | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...would be much slower to react militarily against Russian political gains. (Highly probable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: HOW CLOSE IS WAR ? | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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