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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potential problem plays-for it to focus quite right, or reverberate enough on the stage. Thus, for lack of elbow room, the play has Grace, within minutes, faced with the loss of job, child and lover. The lover, having served his turn, is folded up and pushed out of sight like a card table. The naturalistic method necessitates at times too melodramatic a pace, at other times too moralistic a demonstration...
...definite cleavage seems to be taking place between the mentality of a public, and a Congress, which was nursed on tales of Columbus, Edison, the Wright brothers, etc., and the mentality of the scientists themselves, who can hardly lose sight of the enormous preponderance of unpublicized pipe-dreams. Since all the more romantic advance of science are found in retrospect to have been impeded by forces of malice and darkness, it is perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship...
COFFEE prices, now hovering around $1.21 a lb., are climbing faster than expected, will hit $1.50 a lb. by May, say roasters, who see no end in sight to increases. A. & P. has touched off another boost by upping all brands a flat 5? (to sell for $1.09 to $1.17 a lb.), and the rest of the trade will probably have to follow...
...grade-school arithmetic. He can name the first but not the present President of the U.S. Hewitt's overall I.Q. has gone up from 52 after the injury to 71, but nearly all the gain is from improvement in his control of movements and using his sense of sight...
...major U.S. corporations are developing a new and expensive habit: when they feel the need for big-scale celebration, they buy up all the TV time in sight. Last year, on its 50th anniversary, the Ford Motor Co. took over NBC and CBS for a two-hour extravaganza starring Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. This week, General Foods celebrated its 25th anniversary by spending $250,000 to capture all four TV networks for a 90-minute show. Another $500,000 went into a glittering array of stars who tackled the job of re-creating the "great moments" from the musicals...