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...director, Griffith hit the picture business like a tornado. Before he walked on the set, motion pictures had been, in actuality, static. At a respectful distance, the camera snapped a series of whole scenes, clustered in the groupings of the stage play. Griffith broke up the pose. He rammed his camera into the middle of the action. He took closeups, crosscuts, angle shots and dissolves. His camera was alive, picking off shots; then he built the shots into sequences, the sequences into tense, swift narrative. For the first time the movies had a man who realized that while a theater...
Fleeting Hour. In Manteno, Ill., Edward W. Gorman bought a farm at 4:30 p.m., watched a tornado level...
...other prizes: to Chicago's WBBM, for its Report Uncensored (TIME, Aug. 11); to KXAR, of Hope, Ark., for outstanding public service during a flattening tornado; to Washington's WQQW (TIME, Jan. 20), for The Children's Hour, the best children's program, and to Minneapolis' WCCO, for As the Twig Is Bent, a youth rehabilitation series. The U.N. "Network for Peace" wins a special commendation for its United Nations Today...
There is not really much mystery about green, red or other-colored rain. A quick-acting biologist could probably have proved with a few squints through a microscope that Dayton's rain got its color from algae (microscopic plants) sucked up by a tornado. Full-sized tornadoes can lift heavy objects (such as signboards) high into the clouds. Even little whirlwinds can vacuum-clean the surface of a pond and deposit its green scum many miles away as discolored rain. Sometimes small fish or frogs are sucked up (and later dropped) with the water...
...same tornado hit nearby Bunker Hill (pop. 1,350), demolished more than 200 of its 300 houses. Other tornadoes tore across the Indiana countryside, blowing over barns and wrecking trees...