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...Director Wyler had good reason to draw a comparison. Rummaging through his musty attic of past hits (Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Roman Holiday), he came across Somerset Maugham's durable old (1927) melodrama, The Letter, and last week dusted it off for the 21-inch screen. It was Wyler's first stab at TV, and the result was a slick, highly polished teledrama about a bored wife who riddles her lover with bullets and gets away with...
...feel remains about the same throughout the dive. But when a man goes to the bottom in a flexible diving suit (as he must if he wants to do any work there), he is not sheltered from the pressure of the water, which increases about one pound per square inch for every two feet of descent. The air that he breathes, pumped into his helmet through a tube from the surface, must have pressure enough to keep the water out. Such pressure is not kind to frail human flesh...
When Boatswain Wookey was lowered into the water, he was breathing ordinary air, but when he reached 40 ft., the pump began supplying a mixture of oxygen (8.5 parts) and helium (91.5 parts). Going down was comparatively easy. In spite of the 273 Ibs. of pressure on every square inch of his body (39,312 Ibs. per sq. ft.), he felt fine. "I felt no more effect from the helium," he says, "than I would from nitrogen at shallow depth. My mind was clear. I did the job I was sent down to do." His token job, to prove that...
...listening, the three foreign ministers talked in the skyscraper suite. The Westerners felt that they were getting Fawzi to concede little. "Words, just words," blurted discouraged Christian Pineau on leaving one session. Said another diplomat: "Fawzi is conducting a striptease, but so far he hasn't shown an inch of skin." At night Hammarskjold sat up late sifting comments of the bargainers and reducing them to essentials...
...United Pressman, she crowed for quotation: "They're not hiding too much of me. Just enough so people can hear the dialogue." However, Jayne reserved her most intimate confidence-about her current flame, protein-packed Mickey ("Mr. Universe") Har-gitay-for Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "Mickey has a 52-inch chest expansion and I measure over 40 inches-and we both have short arms. All this makes dancing difficult...