Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that we can't get in a live studio production. The hero of the western is always supposed...
...need to go to far-off Saudi Arabia to find Geigers chasing oil pipeline "pigs" [TIME, Nov. 20]. Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. have had the same done for them on the 500-mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero...
Beyond Koto there was a bad stretch of road winding through steep gorges. Moving at 3 m.p.h., the column halted several times while engineers filled shell craters in the road. At one point there was a four-hour stop while the engineers built abutments on both sides of a chasm so that a bridge span would reach across. The airplanes silenced much of the enemy fire, except on one agonizing day when the air cover was grounded by a driving snowstorm...
...Ponder broke characteristically late, along with Noor and Hill Prince. All the early action was up front, where Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's filly, Next Move, was setting a blistering pace, closely followed by Palestinian and Assault. Noor got moving on the turn (see cut), blazed down the stretch to win by a length over Palestinian. Hill Prince was three lengths farther back, with Next Move fourth, Ponder fifth. Noor's drive set a track record of 1:59 4/5 for the mile and a quarter, and made him the leading money-winner of the year...
...capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize of $10,000 went to Debby, Max Steele's sentimental first novel about a bemused little woman with a big heart and a feeble mind. A shirt manufacturer from Iowa, Richard Bissell, wrote A Stretch on the River, a first novel about Mississippi River boatmen, and got as much tang into his account as anyone since Mark Twain...