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...laugh track is by a machine invented and operated by a former network engineer. His clients (three shows a week) and the whole industry are so furtive about canned laughter that he will discuss it only anonymously. To operate his machine, he sits at a tape console with a panel of twelve buttons, plus controls for quality and volume. Each button fades in a different shade in the whole spectrum of laughter and applause, e.g., a male belly laugh, scattered titters, the out-of-control shrieks of women, the outburst bellowing up to thunder. The engineer plays his machine like...
...extended by BBDO to its clients in 1953, has since spread throughout industry. The advertising agency now has a Vice President in Charge of Brainstorming, whose major function is to hold about three brainstorm sessions a week, see to it that his charges sound off loud and clear. The panel of thinkers is made up of admen and (at nonconfidential sessions) outside guests and friends (including housewives). They sit around in a comfortable, yellow-painted (yellow is considered conducive to thought) brainstorm room furnished in homey knotty pine, have plenty of pads, pencils and cigarettes. Lunch is served, then...
Still another approach to problem solving is that developed by Boston's Arthur D. Little Co., which uses a panel of seven thinkers from widely different professions-artists, engineers, social scientists, biologists, physicists, etc.-brings them together to hammer away at everything from improving paint to making easy-open cans. To date, 40 companies have gone to Little for help, and more than two dozen have asked it to set up similar panels in their own plants...
Exceptional opportunities for advancement in the field of finance are open to college graduates today, a three-member panel of experts said last night...
...only three or four of those could be flung against Van Doren. Reason: the rest lack an imposing background and the audience might think that they were merely lambs being led to slaughter. One of the waiting eligibles is John Kieran Jr., 35, son of the original Information Please panel member, who declined an invitation himself. Much as they now want Van Doren to go on, the producers also foresee a chance that audiences may tire of his winning streak. As the Van Doren family's friend, Clifton Fadiman, puts it: "Sooner or later he's going...