Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours last week, from the opening gavel to the nomination, television's three big networks* carried the story of the convention to 18 million U.S. homes, offices and bars, drawing an estimated 70 million people to the screen for lessons in politics, parliamentary procedure and citizenship. The candidates and their managers found television an invaluable intelligence service; some newsmen decided that they could cover the show best at their ease before a TV screen (see PRESS...
...small core of I.P.R. officials and staffers, who were proCommunist, also carried the main burden of I.P.R. activities behind a screen of non-Communist officials and contributors to the institute. To the I.P.R. protest that most writing in the institute's periodicals was nonCommunist, the committee answered: "NonCommunist or 'neutral writing' plus . . . pro-Communist writing means, whatever the exact percentages, a net pro-Communist effect...
...Warner) is a bleacher biography of baseball's late great Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan). Like The Pride of St. Louis (TIME, May 12), the movie life story of Dizzy Dean, The Winning Team dramatizes the ups & downs of Alexander's career in conventional and sometimes fanciful screen style. Alexander is depicted going from his telephone lineman's job to Midwest minor leagues in 1908, making a sensational major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1911 (28 won, 13 lost), and later becoming a pitching ace with the Chicago Cubs...
...reflection plotter" for the Navy, which enables navigators to keep track on a screen of all nearby vessels...
...Other screen Charleys: Syd Chaplin (1925), Jack Benny...