Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Financially, American imitators are doing better than such authentic calypso singers as the Duke of Iron, or Lord Flea and His Calypsonians (Lord Fish Ray, Count Spoon, et a/.), whose cleaned-up version of the nocturnal wanderings of a flea (The Naughty Little Flea; Capitol) is also a nightclub favorite. All told, calypso records account for roughly a quarter of current pop sales...
Enter the Machine. This method can only be used in cases where the surgeon can count on getting in and out of the heart in less than eight minutes. Moreover, under hypothermia the heart is especially likely to lose its regular beat and flutter uselessly (fibrillate), which may cause death. What was still needed was a pumping device to take over the functions of both heart and lungs for as long as necessary to operate. At Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, Surgeon John Heysham Gibbon Jr. had been working on such a device for almost 20 years. Bailey himself...
...Wolfson actually intends to try unloading the automotive division, he can probably count on help from Sol A. Dann, a Detroit attorney who leads a dissident stockholders' group, has been in touch with Wolfson and says their programs for the company are similar. But Romney believes fervently in the future of the small car, thinks his Rambler and its British-manufactured Metropolitan (sales of both are up so far this year) will be the salvation of the ailing company. Said Romney: "I would be opposed to discontinuance of our automotive activities...
...heels of a California state senate investigation aimed at keeping Hollywood smut out of the scandal magazines (TIME, March 11), a federal grand jury in Chicago last week struck at the nation's best-selling scandal magazine for putting smut in the mail. In a six-count indictment, New York-based Confidential and its Mount Morris (Ill.) distributing agency, the Kable Printing Co., were charged with mailing "nonmailable matter . . . which gives . . . information on how and by what means abortion may be produced." What prompted the indictment was an article in the March 1956 issue of Confidential headed: "The Pill...
Last fall's drive solicited 1500 pledges and 875 actual donations. The count is usually a little smaller in the spring, and PBH has set 650 donations as the goal of the present campaign...