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...TIME, May 23, 1949). As the global-minded U.S. delegate to the U.N.'s conferences on freedom of information, 56-year-old Editorialist Binder knew just what went wrong. Spurred on by the most high-minded intentions, the U.S. had marched starry-eyed into the jaws of a trap that it set itself...
...needed a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids . . . [Then] catastrophe, it took hold of me again. I rented a little atelier on Boulevard Saint-Michel, I locked myself in. My wife didn't like it, that's understandable; she disappeared in a trap door, melted away. Bon voyage...
...Bear Trap. Televiewers found it a lively if not very illuminating show. Next day letters and telegrams (running more than two to one against McCrary) poured into the network. The national Citizens for Eisenhower organization, headed by Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., hurriedly announced that McCrary was not an official or even a member of their group. Bruised but unrepentant, McCrary defended his charges on his own bedside radio show next morning (NBC promptly offered Taft equal time for a rebuttal). That night, as a guest on WMCA's Barry Gray program, McCrary protested that he had been caught...
Barred Doors. It was 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, when 25-year-old Father John Gerard, just ordained in Rome, landed secretly in Norfolk,* England. The day after his arrival he barely escaped a trap set by local "priest hunters." In London he found his Jesuit superior and began his ministry, always traveling as a country gentleman of quality...
...create a genuine illusion of curving space." There should also be a separate property building connected to half a dozen subsidiary studios and a large back lot for outdoor sets. Some of the twelve to 14 cameras will fly overhead on electrically operated cranes; others will peer through trap doors in the studio floor for ant's-eye glimpses of the action. "With a setup like that," says Liebman, "we can put on a 'live' TV movie in an hour...