Kathryn Grayson - She has one daughter. The petite soprano was one of MGM Studios top sopranos of the 1940s & 1950s. She started out with dreams of being in opera, but MGM scooped her up to be in films. Some consider her role as Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me, Kate as her best. She also played Magnolia in the 1951 version of Show Boat. She left the movies in 1956 for the stage and fulfilled her dream of being in opera. She was nominated for an Emmy in 1955 for her performance as a blind girl in General Electric Theater's Shadow On The Heart..
Vertical take-off and landing - patents for an apparatus for aerial transportation. It is one of the earliest example of VTOL aircraft. In the late 1950s and early 1960s almost all fighter aircraft designed included some VTOL features. This was a response to the worrying possibility that a first-strike against airfields by nuclear armed bombers would leave a country open to attack by following bombers. The "solution" was to use VTOL fighters that could be moved to open fields around the countryside, making them immune to widespread destruction. In reality the costs of VTOL performance were huge, and while it turned out to be fairly easy to move the plane, moving the support equipment and fuel was not so easy. By the mid-1960s interest in VTOL had faded, perhaps due much to the widespread introduction of.
Karmann Ghia - the Volkswagen Beetle); but as the world recovered from World War II, consumers began to demand more stylish and elegant vehicles. In the early 1950s executives at Volkswagen decided that it was necessary to produce an "image" car to satisfy the needs of demanding post-war automobile buyers. Volkswagen contracted with German coach builder Karmann to build this car. Karmann in turn contacted the Italian firm Ghia for a sports car design. Ghia took an already made, but unused design (originally made for Chrysler) and modified it to fit on a slightly modified Beetle floorpan. The body and nose of this elegant two door unibody coupe were hand crafted and significantly more expensive to produce than the strictly assembly line produced Beetle; this was reflected in the Karmann Ghia's higher price tag..
Kart - racing or fun use. Karts were initially created in the U.S in the 1950s post-war period by airmen as a way to pass spare time. Slowly karts spread to other countries. To qualify as a kart, the vehicle must meet the following criteria: No suspension A fixed rear axle with no differential Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Contruction 1.1 Chassis 1.2 Motor and Fuel 1.3 Tyress 2 Racing Contruction Normally, the kart is of extremely minimal design and is often powered by a single-piston engine intended for a lawnmower or chainsaw. A tubular steel-frame is used and there is unlikely to be any suspension. Wheels are much smaller than used for a normal racing car and most karts do without a gearbox. Chassis The chassis is an extremely important element of.
Kalimpong - the region from kali bong ("black spur") in the 'language of the local hill people' Several significant monasteries are found within walking distance of the town. Tharpa Choeling Gompa is a monastery of the Yellow Hat sect (Gelug Buddhism). Beyond it is Tongsa Gompa, also known as the Bhutanese monastery, which is the oldest monastery in the area dating to 1692. The monks there belong to the Red Hat sect (Kagyu Buddhism). The newest monastery in town, Zong Dog Palri Fo-Brang Monastery, was consecrated by the Dalai Lama in 1976. It contains a number of important texts brought out of Tibet after the Chinese takeover in the late 1950s. Kalimpong is well known for its flower exporting industry (primarily orchids). It is also the site of an important regional bazaar. Historically,.
Kelly Freas - Piper" cover for Weird Tales in 1950, his art has graced the covers of hundreds of books and magazines, including Astounding/Analog from the 1950s through the 1990s; Mad Magazine covers from 1955 to 1962; cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine, Avon, all 58 Laser Books (which are now collectors' items) and over 90 covers for Ace books alone. He was editor and artist for the first ten Starblaze books. He was commissioned to paint the Skylab I insignia design and posters promoting the space program (used by NASA and now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution); pinup girls on bombers while in the US Army Air Corps; comic book covers; the cover of Queen's first two-million-selling album News of the World; the covers of the GURPS worldbooks Lensman and Planet Krishna; and.
Kennelly-Heaviside Layer - and deduced that the resonant frequency of this area was approximately eight hertz. Its existence was proposed in 1902 independently and almost simultaneously by the American electrical engineer Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1861-1949) and the British physicist Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925). It was finally detected in 1923. In the 1950s, researchers confirmed the resonant frequency was approximately eight hertz. The "Heaviside Layer" is used as a symbol for heaven (in the afterlife sense) in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats. This reference is based on a quote found in a letter written by T. S. Eliot, whose book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats forms the basis of the musical..
Ken Kesey - Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as a cultural icon who some consider something of a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s. Born in La Junta, Colorado, he spent much of his youth in the Pacific Northwest. There he married Faye Haxby, with whom he had three children, Jed, Zane and Shannon. He attended the University of Oregon, where he received a degree in speech and communication and was an Olympic-caliber wrestler. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in 1958; he moved to Palo Alto, California to enroll in the creative writing program at Stanford University. At Stanford in 1959, he volunteered to take part in a study at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital on the effects of psychoactive drugs such.
Kenneth Wolstenholme - March 25 2002) was a sports commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Worsley, Lancashire, England, Wolstenholme started his career as a journalist with a newspaper in Manchester, before joining the RAF as a bomber pilot. After the war he became a freelance journalist, working for BBC radio before moving to television in 1948. While most sports commentators gain some recognition if their career is long enough, Wolstenholme is almost entirely remembered for his commentary of the 1966 Football World Cup Final, specifically the words he used as the match came to a conclusion during injury time, as a small pitch invasion took place just as Geoff Hurst scored to put England 4-2 ahead: "Some people are on the pitch ... they think it's all over ....
Veghel - Veghel became a free village again and was guaranted all common rights by the Dutch government. Since 1810 part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Since the mid 19th century the agrarian village was developing into an industrial village as a result of the new Zuid-Willemsvaart canal. Since that time erection of monumental buildings like the neogothic basilica and the neoclassical city hall. Monastic orders made Veghel into a regional center of health care and education, what it still is. In 1940 Veghel was occupied by the German troops. With the beginning of operation Market Garden in 1944 Veghel was one of the droppingplaces for airborne airtroops due to the strategical location. Since the 1950s settling of international companies and a large grow and new development of the industries. Shoppingcenter and.
Kennet and Avon Canal - some impressive engineering feats, including a number of aqueducts, pumping stations and locks. The Great Western Railway relieved the canal of much of its traffic when it opened, and in 1846 the GWR Company took over the running of the canal, levying high tolls until the canal was hardly used. In the 1950s large portions of the canal were closed because of poor lock maintenance, and in 1956 the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust successfully petitioned against its legal closure. In 1963 the newly formed British Waterways took over the canal and began restoration work. In 1990 Queen Elizabeth II reopened the canal but, because of problems with pumping, the canal could be used only part-time until August 1, 1996 when new backpumps were installed at the Caen Hill flight of.
Kerrison Predictor - adapt it to US manufacturing systems. Sperry was currently starting production of their own system, the M7, but sent back plans for such a version of the Predictor as the M5. To produce the M5 the Singer Corporation was brought in in in December 1940 to produce 1,500 a month to equip their existing 37mm guns. However in February 1941 the US Navy decided to use the Bofors gun as well, and the Army then agreed to in order to simplify production. Singer required massive changes in the company, including building new factories and the switching of a foundry from steel to aluminum, that production didn't start until January 1943. Nevertheless the production line proved to be sound, and the order was filled for their Director, Antiaircraft, M5 by the middle.
Kejne affair - The Kejne affair was a political affair in Sweden in the 1950s. It started in 1948 when Karl-Erik Kejne, a pastor of the town mission, publicly accused homosexual groups to have threatened and made attempts at his life after he had tried to put an end to homosexual prostitution in Stockholm. This theme was quickly picked up by several evening papers, and reached the proportions of a witch hunt and widespread belief in a conspiracy theory about a "homosexual mafia" controlling several criminal homosexual gangs. Kejne was accusing the attorney of corruption, specifically by order of cabinet minister Nils Quensel, who, according to Kejne, was involved in the homosexual groups himself. According to Kejne, Quensel also ordered the police to send homosexual infiltrators employed by the police to his house in.
Kenny Drew - Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington. He then led many recording sessions throughout the 1950s. In 1961 he moved to Europe, and as a result sacrificed much of the interest of the American jazz audience, but he worked and recorded regularly until his death. His son Kenny Drew, Jr is also a jazz pianist..
Keith Joseph - a Captain in the Royal Artillery, and was wounded in Italy. He entered parliament in a by-election for Leeds North in the 1950s, which he remained in until 1987. He became a junior minister in the 1960s at the Ministry of Housing and the Department for Trade. In 1962 he was made Minister for Housing and Local Government, a cabinet position, and introduced a massive program to build council homes. When the Tories returned to government in 1970, he was made Secretary of State for Health and Social Services. Following the 1974 election defeat, and with Margaret Thatcher he set up the Centre for Policy Studies, and stepped aside to let her become leader. He was given the role of policy maker, and was given the posts of Secretary of State.
Khmer Rouge - the name of a leftist-communist organization in Cambodian politics, beginning in the 1950s. However in the 1970s the name came to be identified with the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), known during the 1980s and 1990s as the Party of Democratic Kampuchea. They became infamous for their role in the genocide of between 900,000 and 2 million Cambodians under the leadership of Pol Pot. Khmer Rouge means "Red Khmer" in French, Khmer being the name of the dominant ethnicity of Cambodia. The name Angka, in the Khmer language, was also associated with the CPK. Until the mid-1990s the leadership of the CPK was largely unchanged since the 1960s. The Standing Committee of the Central Committee ("Party Center") comprised Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ta Mok, Khieu Samphan, Ke Pauk, Ieng Sary, Son.
Kingsley Amis - science fiction. His book New Maps of Hell (1960?) was his interpretation of the better aspects of science fiction. He was very enthusiastic about the dystopian works of Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, and in New Maps, he coined the term "comic inferno" for a type of humorous dystopia, particlarly common in the works of Robert Sheckley. With the Sovietologist Robert Conquest he produced a series of science fiction anthologies Spectrum I-IV, which drew heavily on Astounding Science Fiction from the 1950s for its sources. In his own writings in the science fiction/fantasy genre, he wrote two novels, The Alteration, an alternate history novel set in a 20th century Britain where the Reformation never happened, and a supernatural/horror novel, The Green Man, later adapted as a television production by the BBC.
Kiss Me, Kate - 1948. It is roughly based on Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, where the main characters are actors in a stage production of that play. It was made into a film musical in the 1950s by MGM, starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, and Ann Miller, featuring some well known dancers such as Bob Fosse, Carol Haney, and Tommy Rall as specialty dancers. It was filmed in 3-D. Musical numbers "Another Op'nin', Another Show" "Why Can't You Behave?" "Wunderbar" "So in Love" "We Open in Venice" "Tom, Dick, or Harry" "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" "I Hate Men" "Were Thine That Special Face" "I Sing of Love" "Too Darn Hot" "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?" "Always True to You in My Fashion" "Bianca" "Brush Up.
Kid Ory - Chicago for most of the 1920s, he was very active in recording studios, with bands of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Joe King Oliver, and others. After this he returned to California and in the 1940s and 1950s his band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans style jazz, making popular radio broadcasts and recordings. Ory is also credited as the composer of numbers including Muscrat Ramble, Savoy Blues. He died in Hawaii..
Kitsch - How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch." Academic Art 19th century Academic art is still often seen in terms of being kitsch, though this view is coming under attack from modern critics. Perhaps it's best to resort to the theory of Broch, who argued that the genesis of kitsch was in Romanticism, which wasn't kitsch itself but which opened the door for kitsch taste, by emphasizing the need for expressive and evocative art work. Academic art, which continued this tradition Romanticism, has a twofold reason for its association with kitsch. It isn't that it was found to be accessible--in fact, it was under its reign that the difference between "high art" and "low art".
