Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bird...
Playwright Laurents (Home of the Brave, The Bird Cage) is the latest of many writers to exhibit two colliding traditions of love. He wisely seems to suggest that there is something to be said on both sides, though his heroine's plight with her merchant of Venice seems a bit extreme, a little like the setup for an Ethel Merman song. But Cuckoo offers some sound enough comments, and some effective scenes. And there is the opportunity for Actress Booth to display her fine gifts for comedy and pathos...
...Many drugs work their way out of the system so fast that to keep a steady concentration, patients have to take pills several times a day and sometimes during the night. Smith, Kline & French are getting around this with "Spansules"-capsules like a load of bird shot, filled with tiny pills which have coatings of varying thickness, so that a few dissolve every now & then. Manhattan neurologists find them excellent, when filled with amphetamine sulfate, for protecting epileptic patients against night seizures...
...Firebird. In Cleveland, just after Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso Capretta had finished remodeling their home, a bird picked up a lighted cigarette from the street, flew to its nest in their roof, and set a $2,500 fire...
...Early Bird. Wisconsin-born and educated, "Chick" Allyn has taken National a long way since, as a youth of 22, he got a job at the company's Dayton, Ohio headquarters. Thinking to impress the boss, he got to work at 7:45 a.m. the first day. He was sharply told: "At National we start at 6:30." In three years Early Bird Allyn was assistant controller, in four, controller. At 27 he was made a director, and twelve years ago, at 49, president...