Word: vias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen through the eyes of a wounded, truly outraged witness, determined to convey hard facts via uncompromising reportage. War is indeed projected, a product of candid, literary honesty, but having very little to do with aesthetics. If Goya is so far removed, he is so because his masterly statements have everything to do with aesthetics...
Scheduled to sing with the San Francisco Opera Company in Lucia and Macbeth, with thousands of tickets sold weeks in advance, Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Callas was reached in Milan, after days of trying via transatlantic telephone, announced on the eve of the opera season that she wanted to cut the number of performances, and postpone their dates. The temperamental diva was promptly fired...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt how to drive; in Newark, N.J. On Feb. 12, 1908, while thousands of waving spectators roared hoarsely, Roberts climbed into a Thomas Flyer, yanked down his goggles and dusted out of Times Square, pitted against five other massive autos in the first New York-to-Paris-via-the-West auto race. Surviving mud burials in Iowa, sandstorms in Montana, Roberts left his car mates in San Francisco, and they brought the battered Thomas-"the best car in the world in 1908"-into Paris on July 30, 26 days ahead of its nearest competitor (three...
...pave the way. many local stations will start out with the toll systems that go out on wires via telephone poles, and thus presumably elude control by FCC, which holds jurisdiction only over the airwaves. Pay TVmen are enthusiastic about the success of a cable test in Bartlesville, Okla. (TIME, Sept. 16). Skiatron has 60 legmen mapping every house in Los Angeles for wiring, and Telemeter expects to start wire TV in Los Angeles "in the very near future." If the wired systems pack in the viewers, pay TV may grow up in a hurry...
...Look Here! (Sun. 3:30 E.D.T.) Graff has drawn up another impressive roster: Dorothy Parker, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Edith Hamilton, Jimmy Hoffa, Noel Coward, Jack Kennedy, Ethel Merman, Kukla, Fran and Ollie. He and Agronsky also plan to fly to Havana to interview Dictator Batista via the nation's first "over-the-horizon" TV transmission system, which opened last week. "In every case," says Graff, "we are looking for the real essence of the man. We're trying to show, rather than show up, character...