Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcasting. This month, after trapping two new customers-Goodyear, and Aluminum Co. of America, NBC had left only one half-hour of its entire network time of 60 weekly hours: a sour Saturday morning spot (10-10:30) that usually catches only 15% of the nation's radio ear. CBS, Mutual and the Blue Network, a bit less jammed, were coy about just how much. But the 1943 gross for the Big Four will run to around $145,000,000, 20% above...
...Song Writer Lew Brown. With him was Agent Al Rosen. So impressed was Agent Rosen by Judy's singing that for fruitless months he lugged the child around the Hollywood studios while casting directors stopped, looked, cried "too young," and refused to listen. One day Judy gained the ear of M.G.M.'s Jack Robbins. He was so excited that he induced Louis B. Mayer to hear Judy personally. Reverently the great news was conveyed to her. Asked Judy: "Who's Louis B. Mayer?" Mr. Mayer listened to her anyway, and soon thereafter confided to an associate...
...prevent the infections which often follow colds, Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors have developed a sulfadiazine spray. Of two groups of nurses, one used the spray; the other group was untreated. Only 9.7% of the sprayed nurses got sinus trouble, 8% wound up with coughs, 1.8% had ear trouble, none got laryngitis or sore throats. Of the unsprayed nurses, 30% developed sinus trouble, 44% had coughs, 4.5% had ear trouble, 2.3% lost their voices and 10% got sore throats...
They walked through the streets of New York, saw marabou bed jackets and ermine ear muffs in shop windows, taxis scurrying everywhere, ice cream plentiful. They were back home...
...radiocrooner, said to be a libelous few to consist entirely of 98 pounds of tubercular lung, was rejected for a complaint many of his listeners spotted back in the summer: a punctured ear drum. Thus, as it must come to all men, lost hope came to Frank, who had fondly confided in a draft board teacher that he wanted to be a marine...