Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...states, where radar meters are now being used, there was no argument as to their effectiveness. Judges and juries have found that the meters are competent witnesses and entirely legal. But there was a great deal of argument over the ethics of using the unseen screen. ¶In Madison, Wis., the director of the state branch of the American Automobile Association publicly denounced the meters as an affront to law-abiding drivers. ¶In Rochester, motorists who put tin foil or steel marbles in their hubcaps in an unsuccessful effort to foul the detectors were charged with attempting to obstruct...
...heard the lies and sly half-truths of the Communist explainers. They were hurt, then angry, as the Communists snarled at them in defeat, and accused the Indian command of double-dealing: they were grim when the Communists put the P.W.s through hour-long inquisitions, and were ready to screen the P.W.s themselves rather than tolerate any more of such violence. "It is inhuman!" snapped India's Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya. "We have placed our foot into a pit of snakes," said one of his officers...
While seeming to throttle stage & screen with one hand, television is generously offering help with the other. On Broadway last week, theatergoers and critics gave a modest approval to a TV import: Horton Foote's new play, The Trip to Bountiful, starring Lillian Gish (see THEATER). Last March millions of televiewers saw an hour-long version of the same play, with all but two of the same cast, on the Goodyear-Philco TV Playhouse. Robert Howard Lindsay's The Chess Game, seen in February on the Kraft TV Theater, is scheduled for a Broadway opening later this season...
Twentieth Century-Fox President Spyros P. Skouras, there to boost Cinema-Scope, flashed a gloomy picture on the screen. Said he: "Over 6.000 theaters have been closed since 1946. Don't be misled. What happened to those people can happen to you . . . Television is the greatest enemy the industry ever...
...looks into a mirage as into a giant's dream; next the camera traces the uncanny passage of a kind of desert rock that apparently walks by itself when nobody is looking. A little further on, the camera comes in close to watch two common tortoises, crowding the screen like prehistoric Panzers, churn into battle for possession of a female. Soon the audience is gliding along beside a rattler as he tracks a pocket mouse by tasting its footsteps with cold relish...