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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Earnest, ever-posing Stan Kenton was set to take his turmoil on a tour of 77 U.S. and Canadian cities, beginning this week...
Peter of Yugoslavia, Austria's Archduke Franz Joseph, and Lady Franks, wife of the British ambassador. Wedding gifts included a set of Doulton china from Princess Elizabeth, and, for David, six suits and a complete dental rehabilitation job on both uppers & lowers, from his friend, five-&-dime heir Woolworth Donohue...
Everybody suspects that television has deeply affected U.S. family habits. To get some specific examples, the Charles Alldredge public relations firm asked questions in 400 Washington, D.C. homes. This week, Alldredge reported its findings: ¶ Among TV set owners, adult attendance at movies has dropped 72% (from an average of 4.51 times a month to 1.27 times). But children's attendance has declined only...
Zigzagging Nuclei. When the uranium is set off and its temperature rises to millions of degrees centigrade, the whole mass of mixed or layered ingredients will turn into a welter of speeding, zigzagging nuclei, shot through with neutrons and powerful gamma rays. If the bomb is properly designed, many of the collisions will form helium, and each new helium nucleus will release its bit to the bomb's explosive energy...
Adapter Archibald has not tried to force the lock of Henry James's intentions; he nowhere cheats or even cheapens. Moreover, his play captures a certain Jamesian elegance as well as eeriness. With the help of Jo Mielziner's fine period set, Alex North's effective music and Peter Glenville's perceptive staging, The Innocents inhabits a different world from the usual, or even the unusual, thriller...