Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Star-spangled celebrities of stage & screen this week plumped for Adlai Stevenson. Among them: Humphrey Bogart, George Jessel, Bette Davis, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters...
Last week his country's credit came to Dr. Penney. Early one morning, as he watched over a special TV screen in the bowels of a naval vessel, he saw a bright flash, like a setting sun, light up the skies, followed by a dense, turbulent cloud that hugged the ground and slowly zigzagged upward in a Z shape curiously unlike the usual mushroom. Smaller than the usual U.S. blast, it was reportedly designed to verify a new technique aimed at reducing the amount of fissionable material needed to produce an explosion...
...moviemaking called Cinerama. The critics enthusiastically called it "thrilling," "sensational," "breath-taking," "spectacular" and a "revolution in motion pictures." The movie itself, a haphazard series of travelogues called This Is Cinerama, would have excited no one if it had been shown by ordinary projectors on a flat screen. What made audiences sit happily through two hours of the first public sampling of Cinerama was the "three dimensional" sensation to eyes & ears (TIME, July 2, 1951). The illusion jammed the spectators into the front car of a whipping roller coaster, then into a gliding Venetian gondola, then in the nose...
...verbal barrage Moley said, "We find an affinity for a whole school of political sophisticates. They screen their advocacy of a super-government in a mass of pleasant verbiage. Archie MacLeish is the poet laureate of this school; Leon Henderson, its economist; Arthur Schlesinger Jr., its historian; and Stevenson, its statesman...
Married. Gene Markey, 56, screen writer, producer (The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes); and Mrs. Lucille Wright, 55, owner of the Calumet Farm racing stables; he for the fourth time (Nos. 1, 2, 3: Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr, Myrna Loy), she for the second (she is the widow of Baking Powder Magnate Warren Wright); in Manhattan...