Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aorta, the big artery leading away from the heart, is hard to repair; surgeons have tried patching with a length of metal tube, transplanted blood vessels, etc.-without great success. Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel of Harvard Medical School described a new patch that he thinks may fill the bill (it worked well on dogs). His invention: a tube of lucite, the glasslike plastic. Attached to separated ends of the aorta, a lucite patch lets the blood flow freely without clotting, becomes firmly attached to the artery, can be left in the body permanently...
Last week band managers waltzed round Bill Karzas more furiously than ever. Cracked one: "Everybody in the business is making love to the guy." Reason: Bill Karzas, branching out of Chicago for the first time, had just plunked down $1,500,000 to buy three more Midwest ballrooms† hoped soon to have a chain from coast to coast...
...Brothers Karzas. To become the U.S. ballroom king, Bill Karzas started at the bottom of nowhere with his brother Andrew (who died in 1940). Immigrants from Greece 40 years ago, the brothers worked at odd jobs until they had saved up $300, then started a restaurant. When they had accumulated $6,000 they sold out and bought a Chicago nickelodeon. On $125,000 in profits, they built Chicago's first "de luxe" movie house, the Woodlawn, in 1917. Two years later they sold the Woodlawn and two smaller theaters to the Balaban & Katz chain...
...Trianon proved so profitable that the brothers laid out $1,750,000 in 1926 to build the Aragon, which features Spanish-style towers, arched balconies, and a deep blue ceiling in which stars twinkle and fleecy white clouds float around. Says Bill Karzas, who never had time to polish his English: "We think what people want, we appeal to the five senses. We give good music for ear, beautiful place for eye, fresh air for smell, good chairs for comfort, and special ice cream for taste...
Coats & Ties. To keep his ballrooms free of rowdyism, Bill Karzas provides only "sweet" music, bans jitterbugging. He sells liquor, but he pushes orangeade and Coke harder. Men must wear coats and ties; for those who come without them, Karzas keeps a supply on hand. Girls wearing slacks and sweaters are not allowed...