Word: jerrold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modernize high-school physical science courses. Its steering committee includes such names as Nobel Prizewinners Edward Purcell and I. I. (for Isidor Isaac) Rabi, M.I.T.'s President James Killian, Atomic Scientist Vannevar Bush and Moviemaker Frank Capra; its working staff already numbers more than 100. Under Director Jerrold Zacharias, head of M.I.T.'s nuclear science laboratory, the staff will work at least five years on the project, after that may turn its attention to high-school chemistry...
...Bartlesville scheme neatly bypasses FCC because, instead of the public air, it will use coaxial cable strung on telephone poles to link each set with the broadcast. And instead of alienating the local movie exhibitors, it has enlisted them as partners. The idea originated with Philadelphia's Jerrold Electronics Corp., which pioneered in wiring community antenna systems for towns too remote for ordinary TV signals. The company set out to persuade movie exhibitors that it would "give them a chance to get into the home and compete with TV on its own battleground." The idea appealed to Video Independent...
...start, the chain chose Bartlesville, where it will convert one of its three theaters into a subscription-TV studio. The town has a compact pattern of telephone poles, and it gets good TV reception from three commercial stations. Explains Jerrold President Milton J. Shapp: "We wanted to compete with TV rather than come in on the fringe of TV reception." Estimated cost of wiring Bartlesville: $350,000. For the subscriber the monthly $9.50 charge will also cover the cost of connecting a lead-in from the coaxial cable to an unused channel...
...CHICAGO SKYSCRAPER, a 40-story hotel topped only by 1955's Prudential building, will rise along Chicago River by 1959. First hotel to be built in room-short Chicago since 1929 will have 1,216 rooms. Backing it is Promoter Jerrold Wexler, 32, who raised $3,500,000 from Aetna Life, $2,500,000 from his father-in-law, Chicago Real Estater George S. Lurie, and brother Louis R. Lurie, San Francisco real-estate tycoon...
Also Paul F. Cooper, Jr., of Albany, N.Y. and Lowell, Greek; Marshall P. Ernstene, of Cleveland and Adams, Physics; Helmut J.F. Furth, of Washington, D.C. and Dunster, History and Literature; Jerrold B. Lanes, of Brookline and Lowell, History and Literature; John L. Lewis, Jr., of Austin, Texas and Dunster, Social Relations; and George R. Murray, of Dayton, Ohio and Eliot, Biochemical Sciences...