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Word: specially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy week of social whirling for Britain's royal family. One evening Princess Margaret took 24 friends nightclubbing (see Music). On another evening King George, Queen Elizabeth and their two daughters went to the movies: a special performance of That Forsyte Woman at the Odeon, about which 5,000 celebrity hunters swirled and gawked. On an evening at home (Buckingham Palace), the King and Queen gave a little party (250 guests) for Princess Elizabeth before she flew to Malta to spend her second wedding anniversary with Prince Philip, who is on duty with the fleet. The band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

After the December issue, a special tenth-anniversary number, the magazine will close down for a year and reopen, "if conditions improve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lost Horizon | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Next step is to combine the three colored images in the eye of the viewer. The combining is done with two "dichroic mirrors": plates of glass with one surface covered with a thin layer of a colorless, transparent substance. Because of the special way in which this combination affects light of different wave lengths, each mirror reflects only one color. The other two colors pass right through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...systems seemed far less complicated than the arguments about their comparative virtues. The solidest single fact is that the CBS system, developed to high perfection by Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, turns out pictures which are bright, crisp, and at least as faithful as most colored movies. Their own special ill is a so-called "color flash." If the viewer looks away suddenly, he sees the picture momentarily in a single color, because of the persistence in the eye of the last one-color picture seen. A color flash is seldom noticed unless it is looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Proud of its color pictures, CBS has made every effort to show them to the public. A shrewd move was to make special cameras for televising surgical operations for Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, drug manufacturers. As a dignified publicity stunt, the drug house has shown surgical operations in color for the benefit of some 50,000 doctors in medical gatherings all over the country. Since black & white television gives little idea of a surgical operation, the CBS system has given many doctors their first glimpse of ultramodern techniques. Many of the grateful doctors are loud rooters for CBS color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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