Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connecticut Yankee" is the kind of film which you either view with mild amusement or dislike roundly. This is because it is culled from an excellent book and some people, finding the picture not up to the stratospheric standard of the book, thereupon turn violently against it. I, being merely a partisan and not a worshipper of Sam Clemens, could still scrape up a few chuckles...
...Library of Congress, as usual, has many openings in its vast staff, which includes everything from experts in paleontology to researches in Orientalia, as well as those with the more standard librarian duties...
...m.p.h. at standard sea level temperature (59° F.), 662 m.p.h. from 35,332 to 104,987 ft., where temperature is constant...
Television. Admiral Corp. showed seven new combination sets with television (12½-in. tube), AM and FM radio, and a phonograph that will play RCA Victor's new 45 r.p.m. records, Columbia 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing records, and standard 78 r.p.m. discs. Admiral claimed its prices ($475 to $575) were $50 to $200 below comparable sets...
...Champion when it comes to realistic boxing scenes (TIME, April 11), Set-Up packs its own sharp, unexpected punches. The story, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films and concentrates on the rotten underside of the ring and the characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty...