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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Smith proved to have a pleasing voice, though it was impossible to understand her words. Simon made every syllable perfectly clear. He was joined by soprano Ann Hollander and the two viols in an extraordinarily moving performance of the deservedly popular Ich sag ade; but why, the second time through, did they choose to end in the middle? The six instrumentalists turned in fair jobs, with the exception of Ich stund an cinem Morgen, whose rhythmic complexities, even on a second try, seemed to preclude staying together...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Renaissance Choir | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

With the exception of one 45-minute period, from 7:15 to 8, all the programs will be televised live, Wheatley added. This one period will feature films from the Educational Television and Radio Center in Ann Arbor, Mich...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: WGBH-TV Starts Regular Telecasts on Channel Two | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...heartening report from Ann Arbor last week raised an urgent question for every U.S. parent: "Can my children get shots this year to keep them safe from polio?" For about 30 million (more than half the U.S. population under 18), the answer will be yes. Among them, a vast majority of children up to ten years of age will get the shots in one way or another. Originally, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had intended to offer the vaccine in a series of three closely spaced shots within five weeks of each other, as was done in last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: WHO WILL GET THE VACCINE | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...Salk, who worked successfully to a sweeping solution of its problem, suggested that medical science should turn its biggest guns next on mental illness. To help science do this, an organization like the foundation would come in handy. As for Dr. Salk himself, he stayed awhile in Ann Arbor, where the telephone hardly ever stopped ringing and the telegrams piled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: End of a War | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...especially in the light of this year's Broadway scatology), but seemed to come with poor grace from television-where the play was regularly interrupted for hard-selling commercials by Westinghouse. Diana Lynn was somewhat characterless as the dedicated girl who spurns Hollywood's gold; Peggy Ann Garner shone briefly as the disappointed actress who tries suicide but (in TV's version of the play) doesn't succeed, and Nita Talbot, as a wisecracking bystander, got the few laughs registered by the studio audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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