Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faced Amateur Photographer (Nov. 2, 1953), his Mark III Computer (Jan. 23, 1950), which now hangs at Harvard, and his 6-29 Radar Set, now owned by M.I.T. After turning in his current cover (his 166th to be published), TIME editors asked Artzy to play turnabout, portray a mechanized version of Artzybasheff (see above). Said Artzy: "I'd like to psychoanalyze myself, but there isn't time...
...clobbered NBC's Today in the ratings. TV's best drama factory, Playhouse 90, will replay only the shows it originally did on film, all of them poor. The one CBS experiment will be Monday night's Studio One Summer Theater, a sort of summer-stock version of the regular Studio One, returning live shows with new acting and directing talent. Low-key Comic Peter Lind Hayes will pinch-hit for Godfrey on Talent Scouts, and last summer's hot-pop Baritone Vic ("Da Moan") Damone returns with his caramel-whip tunes for a live hour...
...commonly used characters to draw from, crazy Kanji fever swept the U.S. colony in Japan and erupted into a Stars & Stripes anthology of the 100 best Nippo-noodles. To let the folks back home in on the fun, a U.S. publisher (Greenberg; New York) will put out a civilian version of the Nipponoodle book next month. For some typical Nipponoodles, see below...
...such rationalizations soon found more substantial support, for Rumplestiltskin began to notice that Harvard's version of excellence was not exactly the same as that affirmed by many others. Indeed, he found, Harvard prized only a very peculiar sort of excellence...
...Harvard version of excellence was a bit peculiar. It was competitive. Nothing was excellent if it could be excelled. The measure of excellence was never Rumplestiltskin, but rather a metaphysical absolute variously identified as "Veritas", (in academic work), "professional competence" (in extracurricular activities), and "intelligence" (in social situations...