Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...record of 11 hours 5 minutes was set by Frenchman Georges Michel...
Meanwhile it was nice having visitors. Dufy, 73, in the U.S. for treatment of his arthritis, had already regained a bit of the nimbleness his knobby hands were famed for, had set to work painting sprightly watercolors and oils of his new surroundings. Dufy's New England looked rosy as his view of U.S. art was dim. He had filled the Charles River with a champagne-fizz of sailboats and bright ripples, turned the boxy Suffolk County courthouse into a castle of air, given Boston Harbor's fishing fleet a carnival atmosphere, set Beacon Hill...
...Materiel Command produced a parachute with a built-in brain, which automatically goes into action even if an airman is inured bailing out of his plane or blacks out at high altitude. Designed for high-flying fighters and bombers, the release is tripped by a timer (to be set before take-off at from one to 26 seconds), includes an aneroid barometer which opens the chute above 5,000 ft. no matter what happens...
Though only 29, McLendon refers to himself as "the old Scotchman" and, on the air, makes himself out to be a contemporary of octogenarian Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics. Admiring fans send him gifts they think appropriate to his years, including a set of false teeth which he uses as a paperweight...
...persuaded to set up the heavy-budget Masterpiece Playhouse ($10,000 a show) by Amherst College's scholarly Curtis Canfield, who hopes the series will prove to televiewers that "there's something pretty good about the classics, in spite of the fact they're spoiled for us at school." A longtime student of the drama himself, Canfield, 47, has been teaching at Amherst since he graduated there 25 years ago. Head of the college drama department and director of the Masquers (who last year presented Julius Caesar at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington-TIME, April...