Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is nothing very awful about the show; it's just that there is nothing particularly good. Morton Gould's music falls agreeably enough on the ear, but little of it will ever haunt the memory. Michael Kidd's dances have a lively but not unfamiliar spin. Adapted from 1933's The Pursuit of Happiness, the book, for something with history as well as humor on its mind, does fairly well, but it is only a book, and a much too bulky...
Electronic Cobwebs. Laymen are usually baffled When they first look at the machines. Except for Bessie, who has thousands of moving parts that spin and clack entertainingly, they are mostly electronic, and look like the insides of big, enormously complicated radio sets. Among their thousands of vacuum tubes runs a tangled web of fine, insulated wire. On their panels lights flash mysteriously: red lights and white lights dancing like motes in the sunlight as the numbers flow. Harvard's newest machine, Mark III, is probably the handsomest. It was built for the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance...
When the wind blew, they spun. Explained a spokesman for the Center: "We hoped they'd spin, but aerodynamically I'm surprised that they do." He added: "It's not the greatest substitute in the world for the real thing, but it's so hard to keep real snow around here." Men were assigned to go about inspecting the pins and tightening them up so that the winter wind would not rattle the snowflakes. In an older lore, the care of snowflakes had been entrusted only to the nicest angels; the Rockefeller Center man said that...