Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...shop in Manhattan to purge the nation's airwaves of suspected Communists and their fellow travelers, committee members began explaining that it was all a terrible misunderstanding. Mrs. Hestor McCullough, who had helped put Actress Jean Muir out of a job by protesting to her studio (TIME, Sept. 4), announced that she would continue protesting whenever she saw fit as an individual but not as member of any purge committee. The editors of Counterattack, who had assembled the charges of Communist leanings against Actress Muir in the first place, denied that they had any intentions of setting themselves...
...Chicago group's imaginative approach has been born of necessity. Lacking big budgets, elaborate equipment and big-name talent, they are forced to shortcut the elaborate. They specialize in what they call "simplified realism" and "ad-lib drama." By banning studio audiences they can use the four walls of every set; short on cameras, booms and overhead trolleys, they never switch from one camera to another without a good reason...
...Truman tried a new $15,000-a-year appointment on the Senate. He named Dr. T. Keith Glennan, 44, president of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology, to fill a vacancy on the five-man AEC. A Yale-trained electrical engineer who once worked in Hollywood as studio manager for Paramount and Sam Goldwyn, Glennan was director of the Navy's underwater sound lab at New London, Conn, during World War II. He had no special interest in or knowledge of atomic energy ("My interests have been in administration and in people," says Glennan), but Harry Truman hoped...
...been publicly shown. Wright, who was only 23 when he made them, had found the statuettes a great relief from his regular museum job: modeling made-to-measure dummies for the preparators to fasten skins to. He had long since left the museum staff, was busy building a sculpture studio in Corales, N.Mex. when word came that his sideline creations were at last going on show. "Why," Wright crowed, "I'd almost forgotten the little critters existed...
Produced by 20th Century-Fox Studio Boss Darryl Zanuck, who made Pinky, the movie does not deal with the Negro in the Deep South (Intruder in the Dust) or in the isolated South Pacific (Home of the Brave), or with the specialized problem of the Negro trying to pass as white (Lost Boundaries). The story comes directly to grips with racial prejudice in what is presumably an enlightened area of the U.S.: a big city north of the Mason-Dixon line...