Word: serialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Controlling their own show, Network Programing Director Eugene Hallman, 40, and TV Program Director Douglas Nixon, 44, aim for a magazine-like mixture of fiction, fact and fun. A typical evening's fare last week offered song (Perry Como Show) and adventure (R.C.M.P., a realistic serial on the Mounties, which cartoonists are fond of lampooning), but gave equal time to Live a Borrowed Life, a sprightly historical quiz, and Explorations, a well-filmed exposition of the odd migration habits of animals, birds and fish...
...E.D.T.) is made up of the best kind of science fiction: stories that come as close as careful research can bring them to becoming documentaries of tomorrow. The adventures of Colonel Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan), sometimes seem tailored to the familiar serial formula: Will the expedition land successfully on the moon? Will the space tanker explode? Will the colonel get lost among the stars? But the action is always trimmed closely to expert predictions. The show should spin into orbit...
LIFE'S contract includes magazine, foreign and domestic serial and book rights. Attorney DeOrsey counseled the astronauts to negotiate separate contracts for television and movie rights, product endorsement and, in DeOrsey's words, "things you couldn't imagine." The "things," added DeOrsey, do not include a bid from a bank to open an astronauts account with the theme: "They might take a risk in space but when it comes to what they do with their money on good old earth . . ." DeOrsey coldly turned the offer down. LIFE has assigned three staffers to stay with the seven astronauts...
...Reich Security Office, it proved to be a tough job. It took top German engravers seven months to get a satisfactory plate made (the figure of Britannia gave them particular trouble), and still longer to match the bluish rag paper that the real notes were printed on. Dates and serial numbers were carefully checked against real ones. At last came the test. A Gestapo agent took some of the bogus notes to a Zurich bank, said he was afraid that they were counterfeit, asked the Swiss to run tests on them. The bank even checked numbers with London and reported...
...where Mussolini was held before his rescue by Paratrooper Otto Skorzeny; the famous valet "Cicero" (real name: Eliaza Bazna), who stole secrets from the safe of the British Ambassador to Turkey. Ultimately, some of the counterfeit notes turned up in England. But only after duplications cropped up in serial numbers did the British realize what was happening...