Word: vertigo
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...Vertigo (Hitchcock; Paramount). Hollywood's best-known butterball, Alfred Hitchcock, has been spread pretty thin in recent years. The old master, now a slave to television, has turned out another Hitchcock-and-bull story in which the mystery is not so much who done it as who cares...
...typical successful TV comic is either Irish or Jewish, earns more money than the President of the U.S., and is likely to suffer from egomania, insomnia and, especially, vertigo-i.e., a morbid fear of falling from his high Nielsen rating. In a new book, The Funny Men (Simon & Schuster; $3-95), published this week, TV Comic Steve Allen, who labors to be funny five nights a week on NBC's Tonight, outlines the terrors of his trade and takes a measuring look at 16 of his competitors. Since he began work on the book...
...North Shore party at the throttle of a chartered locomotive. Once, when asked to contribute to "The Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary," she remarked that she was not aware of a charitable eye or ear in Boston. Henry Adams described the effect of a chat with her as "absolute vertigo...
...respect the lecture was pathetically revealing. It was the spectacle of a man on the tight rope of his own confusion; of the vertigo; and of the mutilated ethics. Robert Layzer '53 Michael Mabry '53 Donald O. Stewart '53 Irving Yoskowitz...
Some of the phenomena have not been fully explained, and reports still come in at the rate of about twelve a month; but the National Military Establishment is not worried. Group suggestibility and "vertigo" and the difficulty of judging the speed and distance of an airborne object give plenty of material for the human imagination to work on. In the case of flying saucers, it appears to have worked hard. Since no single bolt or rivet of a mysterious aircraft has yet been found, there is no reason to believe that either Russians or Martians have been tearing...