Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Composer Schönberg's music, as usual, sounded to the uninitiated as if the Philharmonic were methodically playing the Chicken Reel, a Bach Toccata and Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean all at once and in different keys. Nobody doubted that Hitler richly deserved...
...original picture bore out, in some eleven reels, this bitter preface. After being dubiously received at a sneak preview it was drastically cut, by Sturges, according to the desires of his employers. In its present mutilated nine-reel state, the picture will probably do its best service if it interests cinemaddicts in reading the book on which it is based...
...last reel, Cornelia and her mastodan are quite chummy, though no one in the audience is told what, if any, their future plans may be. But, as we have said before, no one really cares very much anyway...
Last week, after puffing up his earnings with three one-reel shorts for Columbia (King of the Fairways, The Iron-Masters, Chips and Putts), Byron Nelson called time out. He tossed his clubs aside, resigned as pro at Toledo's swank Inverness Club, and headed for the Pacific North west and several weeks of hunting and fishing. The softspoken, 32-year-old Texan had better control over his nerves, as well as his shots, than ever before, but he needed a rest. He would play no more tournaments until the Portland (Ore.) Open, starting...
Microfilm, used for Vmail, is increasingly popular in research libraries-thus far chiefly for filing newspapers. Photographed on 35-mm. film, ten complete issues of the New York Times (averaging 800 pages) can be recorded on a single 100-ft. reel. Placed in a reading machine operated by hand crank, the film is projected on a screen, enlarged to 18 in. by 18 in. Heads of university presses, tired of spending $1,000 to $4,000 to publish scholarly books which may never be read by more than a hundred or so other scholars, are talking of publishing more & more...