Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoodlum] . . . Cheer up, don't look so green around the gills . . ." Back in the sweating, shoving crowd a man waved a ragged arm, shouted: "Come on, yellow face, come on, lemon face!" At 9:28 the dark substance in one of the slowly turning vials began to slide along the glass, then dissolved and spurted about the container. "Miracolo! Miracolo!" cried a man in the crowd...
...worse that he was dealing not with flu at all but with the common cold. Further testing took until last December, when Researcher Price finally announced isolation of the virus ("We wanted to make sure we really had a cold virus"). By then, Price was already well along in his experimental vaccination program. Using techniques similar to those employed in developing Salk anti-polio .vaccine, Price and his staff grew JH virus in monkey kidney tissue, killed it with formaldehyde to ready it for inoculation. Though development of JH vaccine seems a big step forward in cold prevention...
...program: dedication ceremony with speeches by Clare Boothe Luce and Ambassador David K. Bruce, a Julliard String Quartet concert, a performance by Dancer Martha Graham, and seven American one-act plays. The show was pulling East Berliners over the border. And so was the new Congress Hall itself, along with the nearby Hansa district housing projects by such designers as Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, U.S. Architect Walter Gropius and Finland's Alvar Aalto (TIME, April 30, 1956). Using the new buildings as the site for a summer-long architectural fair, West Berliners had already attracted 725,000 visitors...
...villagers who wandered the birch-laden slopes near Lake Tuusula in southern Finland were accustomed to seeing the massive old man in his Homburg and precisely tailored business suit walking slowly along the shaded lanes, easing his weight on a heavy stick. Invariably, they saluted him, for they knew that they were in the presence of greatness. His admirers indeed claimed Jean Sibelius as one of the century's greatest composers, and since he outlived all major contenders for the title except Stravinsky, during recent years he reigned in almost solitary splendor. Yet, compared to such contemporaries as Richard...
...Revson who would comment last week, insists that the Norman agency was dropped because it began handling a rival show, The Big Surprise. Snapped Martin: "Norman is just a mere infant, that's all. He should shut up." Whatever the truth, Charlie Revson and Norman did not get along. "Revson has good ad sense," says Norman, "but he has to be forced. The Fire and Ice promotion was put over his dead body, even though it was the best ad he ever...