Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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East Berlin's Reds last week staged a new play at the Kammerspiel theater to explain the U.S. Written by Gustav von Wagenheim, a resident of Moscow for twelve years, it is called Auch in Amerika (In America Too), and dedicated "to Howard Fast and the youth of America who do not want war." The setting: a peaceful, lakeside American cottage inhabited by grandfather (wiped out by the big trusts), father (worried about his $125,000-a-year job), mother (worried about father) and son Larry (worried about everybody...
Husky young T. C. Gaines, an Arizona farmer, had promised to lend his tractor to a neighbor. One day last May, as good as his word, he delivered the tractor and drove his truck over to the neighbor's farm to explain its workings. As he filled the tractor's tank with gas, a hired hand lit a cigarette. A split second later, panic-stricken Gaines was streaking across the field, his gasoline-soaked clothes a flaming torch. His friends managed to halt his flight, put out the flames and got him to the truck. No one else...
...Kaye solves this problem by buying time in 1½-hour chunks, scheduling a movie and then breaking it up for repeated four-minute pitches. To the battered televiewer, the breaks in the movie seem all but unendurable, the TV pitches all but interminable. But Kaye is careful to explain that demonstrating how something works comes under the heading of education, not selling. "It's only when we get into our turn (see glossary) that we're using commercial time," he says...
...doing pretty good chasing him and banging him up on the inside. All of a sudden, you're tired. He hits you some sharp raps. You're on the floor and so fogged up you can't get up." Barone was trying to explain how it happened last week that Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles had knocked him down & out for the first time in Nick's career of 53 professional fights...
...Radcliffe Student Council will meet in Moors Hall Living Room at 4 p.m. this afternoon, at which time Dean Small will explain Radcliffe's position on Miss Labenow's removal...