Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was first established in 1941 by an Australian ophthalmologist, Norman McAlister Gregg, who found that many of his infant patients with cataracts and other defects were born a few months after their mothers had German measles. The question remained just how frequently the disease causes such damage. Now Harvard University's Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls has an answer, based on detailed checkups of what happened to the fetus in 147 Massachusetts cases of rubella in the first three months of pregnancy. The statistical result: almost 15% stillbirths, an equal number with severe deformity or crippling...
...score. But, as a musical show, it had to be all written down, could not take chances with improvisation, and thus lacked the prime ingredient of jazz. Now Bethlehem Records has taken a daring step: with an impressive concentration of forces-including Duke Ellington's band, the Australian Jazz Quintet, a vocal group and ten leading singers-it has recorded the famed work in a real jazz spirit. Each selection is accompanied by a different combo, e.g., Duke Ellington for a highly charged version of Summertime, a creative trumpet backing for I Got Plenty of Nuthin', and plenty...
...leading expert on the Milky Way, will leave the University in January to direct the Mt. Stromlo Obseratory of the Australian National University...
Time after time last week, the Royal Australian Air Force band blared The Star-Spangled Banner to signal a U.S. victory in the 1956 Olympic Games-so often that wags in Melbourne's Stadium suggested a switch to The Stars and Stripes Forever. Still, competition on the field added up to something less than a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Though the Russians fared worse than expected in the major track and field events (they good-naturedly gave Americans and others some of the two dozen victory cakes they had ordered on arrival), they scored points...
...weeks U.S. track buffs had been singing the blues because of injuries and poor pre-Australian performances. Only Coach Jim Kelly was unperturbed, and last week reports from Melbourne about warmup sessions proved him correct. Minnesota's Fortune Gordien ambled out to the practice field and spun his discus in a casual. 195-ft. toss that bettered his own world record. California's Cy Young, holder of the 1952 Olympic javelin mark (242 ft. ¾ in.), broke that record by flinging his spear...