Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appear: "A G-String Enterprise." Called Pull My Daisy, the film is written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, the least dreary of the Beat writers. The cast is drawn from the highest level of Beat society; Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky all play themselves. As a result, the first pure-Beat movie gives an authentic impression of beatnik habits and tastes...
...Gallup poll asked that question across the U.S., published the result this week. Two out of three people, reported Gallup, believe that the ad pitches they hear on TV make phony claims. The poll also showed that the more education a viewer has, the less likely he is to believe what the advertiser tells...
...good result of the television scandals came to light: a growing demand for news and public affairs programs, dubbed "truth shows." NBC announced a weekly public affairs program in prime evening time on topics ranging from alcoholism to the summit. Plans were jelling for TV Critic John Crosby to appear on a new CBS show devoted to books, arts, entertainment. Edward R. Murrow's longtime associate, Fred W. Friendly, told New York Herald Tribune Columnist Marie Torre: "Even the elevator operators here at CBS look at us differently. It's as if we've been...
Slicing the Tree. The pathologists removed the whole breathing apparatus ("tracheobronchial tree") from the bodies of 402 men who died in Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange and in eleven New York hospitals (mainly in nonindustrial towns to reduce bias that might result from air pollution). It turned out that 63 of the men had died of lung cancer and 339 from other causes, but the pathologists did not know this until after they had finished their findings. Each "tree" was cut into 208 portions and embedded in paraffin. Fifty-five of these portions, chosen for microscopic study, were then...
...Editors of LIFE (615 pp., 2 vols.; TIME Inc.; regular edition, $25; deluxe edition, $27.50), combines the best of Churchill's sonorous prose from his six-volume history of World War II with some of the greatest war pictures and paintings ever brought between covers. The result, an excellent piece of bookmaking, anatomizes and dramatizes the greatest of wars. Included in the deluxe edition is an evocative recording of some of Churchill's wartime speeches...