Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lesson Learned. He had telegraphed his punch for weeks, for three days had stoked a 66-mile smoke screen in hundreds of chemical generators strung along the river. The Germans had advertised their anticipation of airborne drops. But when they were made, German reaction was surprisingly light. One reason: the enemy had expected the drops farther east. Cautious Monty profited by the Arnhem lesson. This time the First Allied Airborne Army chuted to within artillery range of the ground forces...
Insult to Injury. Though the enemy refused to fight back with his surface ships, he was as eager as ever with his planes. Reinforcements staged from northern fields lashed again & again at Mitscher's carriers and their screen. One U.S. ship was seriously damaged. In two flays, over land and sea, 281 Jap planes were shot out of the air, 275 were destroyed on the ground and 175 more were crippled...
...drama-may mystify the American cinemaddict, but the leisure is put to such good use that the chances are it will charm him instead. For The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an uncommonly rich and pleasant study in character, both human and national. It brings to the screen the greatest English character since Pickwick: Cartoonist David Low's walrus-whiskered epitome of unenlightened self-interest...
Because the viewing surface of current television sets is not a separate screen but the glass end of a huge vacuum tube, even an 8½-by-11-in. picture represents a considerable engineering triumph. But prospects of families crowding to peer at this tiny view have long worried prospective television advertisers, discouraged prospective set owners, stumped designers. Last week in Manhattan. RCA-Victor demonstrated its postwar answer. Operating like movies on the principle of projection, with a reflecting optical system like that used in observatory telescopes and a new high voltage tube only five inches in diameter...
Died. Alexander Granach, 54, Polish-born stage & screen actor (A Bell for Adano, The Seventh Cross), pre-Hitler German star; following an emergency appendectomy; in Manhattan. He once played the title role in Yiddish in the pioneer anti-Nazi play, Professor Mam-lock, for 300 performances in Poland...