Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the judges were through rechecking the entries, there was no question about their choices. Out of 25,039 high school contestants, the two top prizes in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search went last week to a pair of precocious seniors from Newton (Mass.) High School. For his $121 cyclotron that can smash atoms, Reinier Beeuwkes III, 17, won the first prize, a $7,500 scholarship. For his prop-driven flying platform, Yugoslav-born Dushan Mitrovich, 18, won the second prize, a $6,000 scholarship...
...giving up any idea of a political career, Godfrey felt one consolation: "If I stay where I am, I can concern myself only with our country's survival." Out of concern for his own survival on TV, Godfrey has added a $5,000-a-week giveaway to his Talent Scouts...
TELEVISION, which can never get quite enough talent, is currently getting a mighty dollop of it from one man. He is a playwright, director, actor; a veteran of the West End, Broadway and Hollywood; wit, linguist, dialectician and a mimic who can echo anything from a talking dog to a racing car. For an account of his prolific adventures in TV and elsewhere, see TELEVISION AND RADIO, Busting Out All Over...
...rule science fiction is neither; most writers of real talent believe that their place is in the home, not in outer space. An exception is John Wyndham. a British novelist who manages to be in both places at the same time and to apply a sort of documentary style to the description of a world of sinister flapdoodle...
...atomic cannon. How will the commonsensical British deal with this nonsensical problem? Author Wyndham expends the imagination and skill of a serious novelist on resolving the question. Incidentally, he gives a depressingly convincing picture of British social life. Wyndham has chosen to write about the impossible but has the talent to prove that it happened in an all-too-probable place...