Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was not until after World War I (where, he says, he was wounded when a case of salmon fell on his foot-"It gives me a picturesque limp on rainy days") that he went through the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude. As soon as he could...
At 32, Walter Hendl is the youngest permanent conductor of a major U.S. symphony orchestra. Since September, he has also been one of the busiest. Last month, in addition to rehearsing long hours with his new orchestra, he composed a Concerto for Toys and Orchestra, then flew to New York...
Last week, Indianapolis audiences also got to hear what had been on Composer Carmichael's mind. It was Hoagy's first serious composition, a nine-minute tone poem entitled Brown County in Autumn.
Doctors usually like to wait ten years before declaring a case of syphilis cured. But last week the medical team which first used penicillin in human syphilis announced that the first four patients treated had been re-examined and, after six years, could be pronounced cured.
Detective methods had to be used to keep track of the four patients, all seamen. The detecting work was done by Dr. John F. Mahoney, who retired last week as medical director of the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, U.S. Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y., Dr. Richard C. Arnold, his successor...