Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn a fast buck, spends his time trying to promote grandiose business ideas, romancing a far-out bongo-banging broad who lives at the top of the stairs, and treating his eleven-year-old son like a grownup. Faced with eviction, Frankie calls on his apoplectic brother (Edward G. Robinson), a rich New York merchant ("I haven't had a vacation in 24 years and I'm proud of it!"). Brother and his wife (Thelma Ritter) try to fix him up with a nice widow (Eleanor Parker). The rest of the script is farced and furious until...
...George D. Robinson (1884-87), John Q. Adams Brackett...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 pm.). Rerun time stalks the nation as, for the second time, Edward G. Robinson falls in love with a small-town New England schoolteacher...
...them. The president of an insurance company in New Delhi asked if he could come to study M.I.T.'s operations because "I feel that even in an underdeveloped economy there would be room for an institution of this type." One North Carolina man went to Boston, called on Robinson, said he owned $270,000 worth of stock in a Southern paper company, asked if he should sell and invest in M.I.T. shares. Robinson & Co. cautiously made no sales pitch, but advised the man to sell his stock. Next day the stock plunged five points...
HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEERING CORP. sprang from wartime research by M.I.T. Physicist Robert Van de Graaff. M.I.T. Engineer John Trump and British Engineer Denis M. Robinson. They started manufacturing Buck Rogers gear in a dreary Cambridge garage, moved to Route 128 in 1956. High Voltage now builds giant (three stories high) particle accelerators that can sterilize materials by firing a stream of electrons through them. The accelerators are also used for high-energy physics studies and for breaking down chromosomes to study their properties, may soon be used commercially to irradiate food so that it will keep for years without refrigeration...