Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes before 9 o'clock one night last week, the lights were dimmed in the grand ballroom of Washington's Sheraton Park Hotel, and all eyes in the room focused on a large screen behind the speakers' lectern. In a filmed talk, the President of the U.S. welcomed 1,782 delegates and 422 observers to the White House Conference on Education?the most prodigious meeting of its kind ever held. "We are," said the President, "faced today with the grave problem of providing a good education for American youth." How is the job to be done? During the next three...
COLOR TV SALES, currently lagging because of high prices, will get a boost from a new CBS trade-in plan. To promote its big-screen-and high-priced ($895)-color set, CBS will credit buyers with the full purchase price of their old black and white receiver...
Watching on television the first 600 German prisoners returning from the Soviet Union, Hendrik van Dam, Secretary-General of the Jewish Council in Germany, saw a lined, familiar face show up on the screen. A few minutes later his phone rang, and an excited voice shouted...
Married. Nancy Kelly, 34, actress of stage (The Bad Seed) and screen; and Warren Caro, 48, Theatre Guild executive; she for the third, he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Prosperity-in-Hollywood note: as a result of increased TV film production, the Screen Actors' Guild has had the greatest rise in membership in its history: from 8,370 in 1954 to 9,832 this year, an increase of almost 20%. ¶ While the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. cracked down on "a rising tide of moral laxity in movies," and called for a revitalization of the aims and purposes of the National Legion of Decency, the Motion Picture Association vigorously protested to Congress that movie censorship had "seriously eroded" the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression...