Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force, which likes to think it is supreme in the air, scored a major victory on the ground last week. It taught 120 of its officers, all of whom man desks in the Pentagon, to read faster...
Tests had shown that the officers averaged only 292 words a minute and understood only 83.2% of what they read at that speed. After a six weeks' course at the Pentagon's Reading Improvement Laboratory, their speed winged upward, though their comprehension dipped a bit to 79-3%- One lieutenant colonel had boosted his score from 225 words a minute to 516; a captain had jumped from 584 to 1,034, practically a page at a glance. Average progress: 292 to 488 w.p.m...
...secret recordings made of each WCCO announcer's readings of commercials. When the records were played back to the hangdog announcers, most of them admitted that they sounded terrible. One announcer pleaded that he had had to read the same old commercials for 2½ years and that he was as bored as his audience. Most announcers, Meighan says, "fail to comprehend the informality of listening. They are up on a soapbox while the audience is flopped on,a couch...
...trained him. On the track Dan cuts a handsome and convincing figure, but the scriptwriter did him wrong by stuffing his feed bag.full of low grade Hollywood corn. Sample: Dan shows up outside the bedroom window of his dying master (Henry Hull) looking as if he were prepared to read the burial service. Equally lugubrious are Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell and Ruth Warrick, all of whom are required by the formula plot to get badly entangled in their own emotional traces...
Reverse Charges. In Mobile, Ala., Mrs. Mildred Rice read the fine print on her divorce decree, learned that she had been given custody of her ex-husband rather than her child...