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...threw a prodigious right. It missed the target by a yard and Robinson sprawled on the canvas. While Maxim eyed him incredulously, the bell rang and Robinson was lugged to his corner by his handlers. Fifty seconds later, when the warning buzzer sounded, Robinson was still sprawled out on stool and ropes, unable to move. The bell rang for the 14th round, but he could not answer it. As Sugar Ray drooped in his corner, the ring announcer held high the hand of his thoroughly outpointed opponent and proclaimed "the winner by a technical knockout, and still light-heavyweight champion...
...such split-second cooling, Luyet and his associates built a kind of miniature ducking stool. With it they suspend bits of animal tissue and plant leaves over a container of liquid nitrogen kept at -320° F. One brief duck, and the cooling process is complete. Muscle tissue from the hearts of chick embryos has been successfully frozen by the clucking stool and later brought to life...
...theatergoers become aware that the cast is acting, without seeming to act. "Every movement of the body, even the turning of the pages, becomes important," explains Laughton. "You mustn't move, except for a startling effect." As the tempo increases, an actor will slip from his stool and move to center stage in time for his big prose "aria." As theater-wise Director Jed Harris pointed out: "By appearing to read, but actually knowing their parts by heart, they make the whole thing come alive. In a theatrical production, the power of illusion would be much more difficult." Playwright...
...bosomy, blonde showgirl who changed her name to "Dagmar" and made quite a splash on TV last year in NBC's Broadway Open House (TIME, July 9). With her sensational looks, Dagmar didn't even have to try very hard: she merely sat on a high stool, breathed deeply, and occasionally malapropped her way through a poem or a short play. Last week, looking bigger and blonder than ever, after months of "trying to find the right kind of format," Dagmar was back on TV with her own show, Dagmar's Canteen...
...launched a drive against loyalty oaths in December 1949, when it attacked the "stool pigeon" clause in the oath required of all Navy men, including Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps members. The clause, compelling Navy men to name all persons connected with groups listed as subversive by the Justice Department, was called a "menace to American freedom and a special threat to academic freedom...