Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a "longhair" who had coined the word "cybernetics"* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now Wiener's book, Cybernetics (TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), is a classic, and Wiener is a prophet who is listened to by shorthaired, hardheaded businessmen. Many of them agree wholeheartedly that the "cybernetic revolution" he predicted is already in progress...
George Shearing and His Quintet (M-G-M). Blind British Pianist Shearing and his group wrap up eight to prove "that bop is still very much alive." Unproved...
...Victor was out to wrap up a fast-selling Christmas package (and incidentally promote its 45-r.p.m. doughnut-hole discs). The question was what to put in it. The obvious answer was to prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny...
...year to Preakness Winner Hill Prince, Middleground, winner of the Kentucky Derby, was beginning to look like something of a fluke. As 39,000 spectators craned toward the starting gate at New York's Belmont Park last week, Hill Prince was the odds-on (17-20) choice to wrap up the rubber match of 1950's top three-year-old races...
Advance members of the Mountaineering Club's Peruvian expedition landed in Peru yesterday with just ten days to wrap up final plans for their assault on the 21,769-foot Butcher of the Andes...