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Some of the professors invading TV have gone nearly the entire way to pure entertainment. Rutgers' handsomely mustached Dr. Mason Gross plays straight man for Comic Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money, and Northwestern's Bergen Evans stars as moderator on Du Mont's Down You Go. When the show moved this season from Chicago to Manhattan, Evans was fortunately on leave from Northwestern to work on a new book on slang. He will therefore not have to make his choice between teaching and TV until this fall, when his leave expires...
Fast Count. A new electronic device that can count up to 1,000,000 objects of varying shapes and sizes in just one second has been developed by Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. of Clifton, N.J. The Inconumerator employs a cathode-ray tube to "see," remember what it has counted, then announce the results as lighted figures on a tote board. Among its practical uses: counting blood cells, mass counting of assorted machine parts, tabulating stars in astronomical photos...
Under the gilded ceiling of Paris' Palais du Luxembourg, where Napoleon came to ask fresh levies to send against the Austrians and the Prussians, where Clemenceau, vengeful "Tiger" of the Versailles Treaty, once brooded in the red velvet chairs, the French Senate this week declared an end to the French-German hostility that has been the central pivot of European history for 150 years...
...Wind and rough water on the Thames made dusty going for the Oxford and Cambridge crews. But with the help of two Americans (Harvardmen Phil Du-Bois and R.A.G. Monks), the Light Blues of Cambridge stroked to the finish line 16 lengths in front...
...average song stylist. To those who find lyrics incomprehensible as well as obscure. I can only offer this advice: 1) Make no distinction between vowels, because the singers themselves make none; 2) Do not worry if monosyllables are turned into polysyllables: 3) The expressions "doo doo doo doo" and "du whah, du whah" are not meant to be words, but are to create a rhythmical effect...