Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Inconspicuous is the word for George Humphrey. He has made few public speeches, held few press conferences. To avoid the press while on the ECA mission in London, he went up & down the service stairs at Claridge's Hotel, and had his wife screen all visitors and telephone calls. He is sharp of eye and of mind, has a square jaw and a balding head, holds his middle-sized frame ramrod straight. A horseman and hunter, he has fine stables at his 150-acre estate in Lake County, 24 miles out of Cleveland, a stable of brood mares...
...Eliot '10 gave the first lecture, in 1951, on "Poetry and Drama." Last spring, stage and screen director Elia Kazan gave the second on "Show Business and the Realities...
...Paul C. Hodges, has turned a Schmidt-type telescope into a highly efficient camera for making X-ray pictures of the human abdomen. The simplified system of lenses and concave mirror that can photograph the dimmest starlight is being used for quick, sharp snapshots of a faint, fluorescent screen...
...Hodges' astronomical X-ray camera is mounted beneath a regulation X-ray table. Radiation passes through patient and table to strike a fluorescent screen that changes X rays into visible light. Below the fluorescent screen, light is gathered by lenses and concave mirror to be focused on 70-mm. film. The camera can take six exposures in a second...
Producer Dore Schary hoped that Plymouth Adventure would "humanize" the Pilgrims, but they never emerge on the screen as flesh-and-blood characters. Ihe picture has a spectacular Atlantic storm, but most of the time the Pilgrims -and the audience-are merely awash in a sea of florid dialogue...