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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itch, nonskid toupee. As president of Taylor Topper, toupee-topped Taylor, a veteran campaign guitar strummer and vice-presidential candidate of the pink-tinged Progressive Party in 1948, features before-and-after pictures of his own pate in his advertising, is now trying to set up Taylor Topper franchises across the U.S. Last week he allowed: "I'm not doing a land-office business-but it takes time for this sort of thing to sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...only to copper wires (as in conventional generators), but to gases, which become conductors when they are made so hot that some of their atoms separate (ionize) into electrically charged particles. If forced through a magnetic field, a stream of ionized gas causes an electrical current to flow across it. This principle has been known for years, and many efforts have been made to apply it practically, but the trick is not easy. The gas must be so hot (at least 4,000° F.) that it destroys many structural materials. Another problem is the poor conductivity of most gases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gas in the Generator | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...increases its ionization and makes it a better electrical conductor. Then the stream shoots into a hollow cone made of a heat-resisting, nonconducting material (see diagram). Electrical coils outside the cone create a strong magnetic field. As the gas speeds through, a powerful current of electricity flows across it and is collected by two electrodes inside the cone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gas in the Generator | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Game' (See Cover) The quarterback snaps "Let's go," the eleven burly men clap their hands in a single, sharp crack, and the offensive huddle dissolves. Then, taking his place behind the looming rump of his center, the quarterback looks with narrowed eyes across the line of scrimmage at the most formidable sight in professional football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...nineteenth century Russia. The existence itself had to be rationalized and joked about, and what we laugh at are people laughing at themselves. Acting out this world in English, then, is perhaps the only substitute for reading Sholom Aleichem in Yiddish, and it is improbable that anyone could put across the interpretation as well as Carnovsky does. He reaches the height of eloquence through silence, as Paul Richards did on a smaller scale in the first two works. At the end of the play Carnovsky sits and looks silently out over the audience, and one feels that the self-awareness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The World of Sholom Aleichem | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

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