Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture at right shows Charles Bateman, a physicist, in his New Kensington (Pa.) home last week. Another picture of him is on page 68, showing him six weeks ago buried under ice cubes. Bateman was then being "chilled" in preparation for a spectacular heart operation by Dr. Charles Bailey, TIME'S cover man this week. TIME'S color pictures follow that successful operation step by step into the patient's very heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story...
...Cinderella and most others in the cast were afraid of horses. Otherwise, rehearsals were proceeding pleasantly in a big Manhattan TV studio where Broadway Showmakers Rodgers and Hammerstein and a cast of stars are preparing a lavish musical version of Cinderella. For a close peek at how a TV spectacular is put together, see TV & RADIO, Rear View...
This key development, heralding events that could be spectacular, interrupted testimony of Frank W. Brewster, a vice president of the Teamsters and chairman of the union's Western Conference...
...play ball. Every day after school he made the boy run. slide, throw, catch until his hands hung dead on his wrists. "We're going for the big leagues, boy," he would mutter fiercely, and the child would nod fiercely in agreement. At 17 Jim was a spectacular outfielder whose all-round talents won the state championship for his high-school team; but his father was never satisfied. "How'd I do, dad?" Jim asked anxiously after playing a prodigious game. And father implacably replied, "Not bad, son. But you weren't on your toes...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...