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DIED. BILLY MAY, 87, bandleader, composer and arranger whose swinging Big Band sound helped define '50s pop music; in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. As a trumpeter in the 1940s, he played with the Glenn Miller band. Later he led his own orchestra and provided accompaniment for Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra on such signature hits as Come Fly with...
DIED. MERRILL CHASE, 98, immunologist who discovered a new branch of the immune system; in New York City. Working with white blood cells in the early 1940s, he stumbled on cell-mediated immunity; until then antibodies were thought to be the sole source of protection against infection...
...raised in Wisconsin, she began her career in London in 1937 as Ophelia in Eva Le Gallienne's Hamlet. She later won acclaim for her Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull and as the wife of an alcoholic actor in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl. In the late 1940s, she and her second husband, actor-director Herbert Berghof, started HB Studio, a widely respected performing-arts school in New York City...
DIED. GEORGETTE KLINGER, 88, fashionable skin-care pioneer of the 1940s whose European facial techniques laid the basis for today's multibillion-dollar spa industry; in New York City. Born in what is now the Czech Republic, she fought acne as a child and began experimenting with her own cures when traditional dermatology treatments failed. Her view that the face is something to be treated rather than just decorated inspired a revolution in cosmetic skin care...
Nevertheless, scientists are light-years ahead of where they were in the 1920s and '30s, when estrogen and testosterone were first identified, and they know a great deal more than they did in the 1940s, when Alfred Kinsey, followed by the research team of William Masters and Virginia Johnson in the 1960s, published some of the first scholarly studies of human sexuality. Those studies concluded that sexual response proceeds in distinct stages, beginning with excitement--erection in men, engorgement of vaginal and clitoral tissue in women--proceeding to orgasm and finally to "resolution," in which tissues return to their normal...