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Cinemiracle. A new wide-screen process, called Cinemiracle, that uses the largest curved screen to date, stretching from one side of the theater to the other, was demonstrated by National Theaters. Like Cinerama, it has a three-panel system of photography, but is free of the lines between panels and the side distortion of other wide-screen processes...
...brilliant southpass, whose 21 victories were a prime factor in Milwaukee's first National League pennant, received all but one of the votes of the 16-man panel of baseball writers who participated in the annual poll. The other vote went to Dick Donovan, of Quincy, Mass., the Chicago White Sox' big righthander...
...Corps. Both had spent the previous day at West Point, boning up on campus customs, getting regulation haircuts and uniforms fitted. Three of the panelists guessed the truck driver, an act he greeted with one of the most triumphant smiles ever flashed on the TV screen. Another time the panel had to pick out a Texan who had parlayed $350 into a vast oil fortune. "What is an important byproduct of oil?" one of the fakes, a minister from South Carolina, was asked...
...Cash!" said he, capturing both the audience and all four panel votes. Yankee second baseman Jerry Coleman, posing as Singer Don Rondo, once fooled three out of four panelists...
...Then," says Fates, "we tell them to go out there and lie like mad." Mad lying made the panel guess wrong about 70% of the time...