Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stickler for the till-death-do-us-part bit, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth played the fourth matrimonial walkout of her career as she left Crooner Dick Haymes. A violent quarrel about their careers and previous marriages-he, too, was trying marriage for the fourth time-split their two-year-old union. The parting left Rita in shock, Dick in tears. To intimates, and to almost any reporter who would listen, Dick confided: "I love Rita. A man is only in love once, and she has been my idol for 18 years." That same night, with Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove packed...
...Goetz listened to its 25-lb. heart and located the carotid artery, which runs up the neck. He made an incision in the hide, opened the artery and applied a specially built manometer (blood-pressure-measuring instrument) with a catheter 12 ft. long. On its tip was a bit of radioactive cobalt, so its progress could be followed with a Geiger counter as it moved up the artery...
...would have him believe. Stapp thinks that many of man's limitations are not imposed by the body but by the mind. Says he: "Why are we always underrating man? Take, for example, the four-minute mile. For years, we thought that was a physical limit just a bit beyond human reach. Well, it was a psychological limit, and once there was a breakthrough the barrier seemed never to have existed. So it was with the sound barrier-with man enduring Mach 1*- a falsely set limit...
Ukulele Lady (Eddie Ballantine and his orchestra, Wing). "If you like a ukulele lady, ukulele lady lika you" was a phrase to conjure with during Prohibition, and the Bluejays vocal group cons up quite a bit of the nostalgia. Not so the band, which douses the mood in a boozy blare...
After the demonstration was over, without a single flashbulb fired, the "judges" turned in a split decision. "Very smoothly done," said U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Herbert F. Goodrich. "Distracting a bit, but so is a pretty girl ... It [might] drive witnesses crazy." But another "judge," University of Michigan Law Professor Charles W. Joiner, found the picture-taking "did not distract in any way." He said he would be in favor of relaxing the Bar Association's canon forbidding photography in courtrooms provided that the photographers "do not try to tell the judge how to run his court...