Word: timer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hanna-Barbera shop is efficient but unconventional. Hanna and Barbera work harder and longer than anyone else. Hanna is the timer, who computes the mathematical intricacies of matching dialogue to action and budgeting the exact number of frames necessary to build each joke and each dissolve. Barbera, who can draw almost as fast as he can talk, does the planning-stage sketch work, can create a fully plotted storyboard (a sort of cartoon outline with dialogue) in five hours...
...York Yacht Club accepted the challenge of Australia's Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron for an America's Cup match in the summer of 1962. But, recognizing Britain's role as a repeated Cup challenger (14 of 16 previous matches, with Canada a two-timer), the yacht club trustees endorsed a proposal by the Duke of Edinburgh that the next challenge be a joint Commonwealth enterprise. If Australia is agreeable, elimination matches will be held among Commonwealth nations, with the winner to meet the U.S.'s 12-meter champion...