Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Statesman is read, and it does make money. Editor Martin says proudly: "I am proud of the fact that the paper has grown in influence and circulation without ever having consciously . . . played down to its audience or become less thoughtful. If it is to be called highbrow, then the number of highbrows must have enormously increased and that is in some degree our doing...
...Angeles, the National Bureau o Standards' Institute for Numerical Analysis started operating a new electronic calculator which in a mere four hours can solve 150 simultaneous algebraic equations nvolving 4,000,000 arithmetic operations. It can also perform 1,000,000 additions a minute and even make a stab at translating foreign languages (Present vocaulary: 200 words). If SWAC (for Standards Western Automatic Computer) had been around during World War II, hundreds of women calculating-machine operators would have been saved the work ot more than a year compiling rocket-nring tables; SWAC, which needs no sleep...
Doing its bit to make servicemen in Korea security-conscious, the armed forces radio in Japan broadcast the first results of a new slogan contest. One of the shortest slogans, contributed by Major General Walter Weible of the Logistical Command: "Shut up." Another from Sergeant First Class Robert Newcomer: "The two best relatives what am-Anti-Rumor and Uncle...
...Musical Convent." A onetime Max Reinhardt student, German-born, 63-year-old Carl Ebert is one operatic director who insists that his "singing actors" know "the exact meaning of what they are singing and . . . strive to make it sound believable by their actions and expressions...
Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25 (John Wummer, flute; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Columbia 2 sides LP). An early, infectiously light-hearted work for an unusual assortment of instruments; the players here make it sound good. Recording: excellent...