Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Lynd's super-professionals are powerful men, who "by patient lobbying over many years . . . have so influenced state and local laws, that their training courses in teaching theory and method are virtually essential to the eligibility of any candidate for a job in your schools." But the super-pros do not stop there. To gain promotions, a teacher must keep coming back summer after summer to take mor courses...
...citadel of Eastern-originated television was threatened last week by a routine Silver Theater show (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The half-hour presentation, His Brother's Keeper, unusual only because it was shot entirely in film, was the first example of a multi-camera filming method devised by Hollywood's short-subject veteran Jerry Fairbanks, assisted by Silver Theater Producer-Director Frank Telford...
Variety, reporting that "viewers throughout had the feeling it was live TV," hailed the show as probably answering "many of video's most complex problems." Convinced that television's future now lies in Hollywood, Director Telford saw the Fairbanks method doing away with a lot of strain and split-second timing. He predicted cheerily: "It will take the ulcers out of the business...
...onetime lawyer and banker, Price went to Westinghouse in 1943 to handle the company's war contracts, devised so simple a method for terminating them at war's end that it became an industry model. Impressed, the directors made him president in 1946. Price set his sights on three main goals: cut costs, step up productivity, and boost sales. He worked out an incentive plan whereby foremen get bonuses for every cost-cutting or production-boosting idea. In three years Westinghouse's net has jumped 40%. Last week, Price was just as confident about the future...
...date due slip as proof that the book has legally been signed for was the method recommended for the present, subject to rennovations next fall. The system may be completely overhauled in line with proposed remodeling of the entire library...