Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Narcotic Pull. The puppets, all powered by Tillstrom's nimble hands and agile, nine-voiced throat, make their way through rambling shows that somehow seem to crackle with spontaneity. Sketchily rehearsed, scriptless, punctuated with casual pauses, Kukla is likely to strike viewers at first as mildly irritating. But the show has an odd, narcotic pull: by the time Chicago joined the coaxial cable last January, Kukla had built up a Berle sized audience rating...
...Wrenn most was the claim by Pan Am President Juan Trippe that the merger would save the U.S. Government $9,000,000 a year in mail subsidies. "A saving of $9,000,000 . . . is a very important item of public interest. If the Board approves [this merger], it should make clear to Pan American that it will expect [it] to make good on Mr. Trippe's representation...
...idea of assembling U.S. historical documents had been something historians had talked about for more than a century. In 1941, with one assistant, stubby little Professor Jenkins set out to make it an actuality...
Cornell's Acting President Cornelis de Kiewiet went into action, suspended both societies "in view of the nearly fatal consequences of [your] activities." Then he called on a Cornell faculty committee to review the facts and make recommendations. Majura and Beth L'Amed (familiarly known as Mummy) had flourished for half a century at Cornell, but even in student opinion they had gone too far. Said the Cornell Daily Sun: "Cornell's doctrine of 'freedom with responsibility' had clearly been abused . . . The administration will not and should not allow us to kill ourselves . . ." Last week...
...Havilland's figures knocked the props from under London newspaper predictions of nonstop London-New York schedules of six hours. Until its range was improved, the Comet would not be able to make nonstop London-New York flights at all. De Havilland itself estimated that it would take twelve hours for the trip, counting refueling time at Prestwick and Gander. Lockheed's 43-passenger Constellation now makes...