Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year run on radio, and should be notably successful on TV. As before, Dr. I.Q. (Jay Owen) fires his questions from a theater stage while his four assistants track down contestants in the audience ("I have a lady in the balcony, Doctor!"). The quiz payoff is made in silver dollars, and the questions are as hard as ever ("Name the states that border on the Mississippi River"). With its dramatic values considerably heightened by television, Dr. I.Q. is not likely to remain unsponsored for long...
...Hollywood, every smog used to have its silver lining, but nowadays the lining is not even tinfoil. With TV competition rampant, and enough talent unemployed to fill a dozen De Mille epics. Hollywood is escaping into the past. Aging cine-moguls such as Mack Sennett, King Vidor and Adolph Zukor are publishing reminiscences about the good old days, studios are remaking old hits (e.g., The Covered Wagon and Ben Hur), production schedules read like mail-order history (Demetrius and the Gladiators, Prince Valiant). But the most startling forays into the past occur at Hollywood's quainter eating and drinking...
...flower, of course, is extremely fragile and must be buttressed in several places. Bierweiler makes plaster supports which fit under stems, leaves, or petals wherever necessary without obstructing anything. Then, with a dentist's drill, he makes a fine hole in the plaster through which he runs a thin silver wire to tie down the delicate spray. The system is not only artistically beautiful but efficient. The plant is always turned to catch the light perfectly. While the flowers are continually being cleaned and freshened, there has been no damage from vibration despite the lumbering trucks that patrol Oxford...
...collection of oriental art more fitting for a museum than a scientific laboratory. The spoils of wanderlust have filled almost every room with exotic gifts. An undergraduate who stopped at the wreck of the old Parker House after its demolition in 1926, brought in he first decoration, a silver an gold cornice above the library's front window. One student donated two Alaskan gods sculptured in a style combining prehistoric and ultra-modern art. They stare at each other across the library and supposedly symbolize diseased minds. On another wall hangs a Chinese painting of a banquet, given the Clinic...
Five days later they had covered about a third of the distance on foot, living on apples and potatoes. They sold a silver cigarette case, a watch and two sweaters for train fare. At Uckro, only 40 miles from Berlin, they had their first gun fight with the Vopos (People's Police). "As we were leaving the station," Ctirad Masin recounted later, "Vopos suddenly confronted us and asked for identification . . . My brother and I drew our guns and started shooting. Three of the Vopos fell, and the others fled, as did all the bystanders. Then we ran . . . Later...