Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made and lost several fortunes as producer of hundreds of Broadway and road shows, ranging from early-century corn (Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl) to naughty jazz-age farces (The Demi-Virgin) to hit plays (The Green Hat, with Katharine Cornell; The Trial of Mary Dugan, with Ann Harding) ; in Manhattan...
From this idea it is but a step to a bigger theory of health & sickness which Dr. Kahn (now at Ann Arbor on the faculty of the University of Michigan) has evolved. Some of the body's cells are constantly being destroyed, and in the process part of their lipid (fat-like) content passes into the blood. The system then automatically develops antibodies which react mysteriously with the dead-cell lipids. In the test tube, these antibodies react, in what Kahn holds to be a definite and ascertainable pattern, with the fatty stuff from beef heart...
...cast the opera's voices first, record the score before turning a camera, and then engage their actors-presumably so that the players could look and perform their roles convincingly while seeming to sing like birds. But the part of a dying consumptive is played incongruously by hefty Ann Avars (who uses her own voice), and Britain's glamorous Pamela (The Lady's Not for Burning) Brown is made to look like a shorn Harpo Marx so that she can play Hoffmann's male companion. Even the performers who appear to advantage represent a disturbing clash...
Virtue's Reward. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Henry Heil slipped a coin into a parking meter to help an unknown motorist whose time had run out, was promptly arrested under a city ordinance prohibiting unauthorized persons from putting coins in meters...
Constance Peck '52 is the new Radcliffe N.S.A. alternate. Ann Hopkins '54, elected to that post in March, became N.S.A. delegate upon the resignation of Martha McCabe...