Word: wasteland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family Circle (weekdays 3 p.m., ABC) is a collection of songs, verse, interviews and chatter, propelled through the wasteland of daytime radio by a glib and determinedly jolly M.C. named Walter Kiernan. Typical guest: Actress Sarah Churchill, who was allowed to tell the plot of her current Broadway show, Gramercy Ghost. In exchange, Kiernan asked how her father, Winston Churchill, felt about her becoming an actress ("he thought it was a whim...
Chemist Duisberg had begun his own experiments with the creosote bush (Larrea divaricata), an acrid, sticky evergreen that thrives in millions of acres of drought-stricken wasteland. Last winter, using a distilling apparatus made from junkheap parts, Duisberg showed how to turn the hardy bush into a palatable stock feed.* With one byproduct already available to increase the margin of profit (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, a fat preservative that brings $35 a lb.), he managed to develop another: a quick-drying varnish that is almost certain to be salable. Other promising plants on Duisberg's list...
...Balkanized and monetarily oriented Houses could come together long enough to look at the nearby grass of the Graduate Center, we feel sure that they could find gardening techniques to bring their wasteland to full bloom...
...Country Girl (by Clifford Odets; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) brings back Odets, after more than ten years in the wasteland, to the land of the living. It by no means brings him back in triumph; even when his play throbs, it is not always with honest life, and by the end it looks footlighted and chalky. But it has passages of fierce feeling that only Odets could write, and characters that at moments are bitingly real...
...tape recorder, purchased by the Theatre and Poetry Departments of the University Library and the Summer School last July will record the words of the author of "Wasteland" as well as the other forth-coming Spenser Drama lectures and Gray poetry readings. They will be transferred to discs and added to the collection in the Woodbury Poetry Room in Lamont...