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...Cummings' mother was an ordained minister, and back in the family home in Joplin, Mo., she gave him a short sermon that he has never forgotten. Said she: "Your mind is like a light bulb. It's up to you whether you use it like a 60-watt bulb or make it shine as bright as a 1,000-watter." She did not protest when Cummings decided to look for a socket on the Great White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 1,000-Watt Bulb | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...million-watt transmitter will bounce radar waves off meteors to a series of six radar receivers spaced seven miles apart, and will record data concerning even meteors 500 times too small for the human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory to Operate Meteor-Study Radar Net | 3/23/1956 | See Source »

...libretto, with its pseudo-Masonic mumbo jumbo and up to 16 bewildering scene changes, has always been a terror to stage craftsmen, but it also offers charm, humor, pageantry and plenty of cues for imagination, and these the Met missed. Scenic backgrounds were ingeniously provided by special 5,000-watt projectors, but most of the projections were hazy and dull (one, during the Queen of the Night's big aria, looked like a distorted Manhattan skyline). And despite the magic lights at his disposal, Scene Designer Harry Horner insisted on trundling in all the conventional heavy scenery; one notably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flat Flute | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...Navy's balloons are helium-filled and 39 ft. in diameter. Besides their instruments they carry a 50-watt battery-powered radio transmitter that broadcasts on three frequencies* and can be monitored and tracked by ground stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Balloons for the Jet Stream | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Down from the Attic. Soon begrimed, and lighted only by 100-watt bulbs, Sargent's murals have long escaped the attention of most Boston Museum visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter of Appearances | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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