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...stock, Sam Newhouse assumed proprietorship of one of the oldest periodical publishers in the U.S. Established in 1855, Street & Smith prospered with an array of derring-do pulps from such prolific potboilers as Horatio Alger Jr., Ned Buntline, Josh Billings and Bill Nye, bought the early works of Booth Tarkington, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst and many others. Street & Smith writers added many a resonant name to the ranks of folk heroes: Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, Buffalo Bill. But with time, the derring-do pulps gave way to dreary ones: Detective Story, Love Story Magazine and comic books. In 1949 Street...
...list is rich with names-Olivier, Guinness, Bergman, Booth, Robards, Merman, Hope, Berle. The live drama, the comedies, the variety shows they will star in will be balanced by an ambitious slate including opera, public affairs, sports, education and adventure. There will be a record 250 hours of colorcasts...
East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: Shirley Booth in a bedroom farce, Nina...
...group left the "glass house" of the exhibition and passed a voting-booth arrangement where visitors can use American voting machines to choose their favorite display. Said Khrushchev coldly: "I have no interest in that." He ignored the models in the fashion show, brushed aside the RAMAC computer that automatically answers 4,000 questions about the U.S. "To shoot off rockets, we have computers," he said, "and they are just as complicated as this...
...Tingler's tingles are produced by small electric motors (one under each seat) bought from war-surplus stores for $3 apiece. They will be distributed to theaters along with a control panel, so that a man in the projection booth can turn them on and off in waves as the tingler crawls across the screen. Says Bill Castle: "I want to tap the entire potential audience-teen-agers, children, all devotees of adventure and horror...