Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ear Opener. For a common type of deafness-resulting from blocking of the inner end of the Eustachian tube by abnormal growth of lymphatic tissue-Dr. John E. Bordley of Johns Hopkins described a new treatment: radioactive bombardment. If done early, before the blocking tissue hardens, irradiation with radium opens the tube, restores normal hearing...
...recent months, as his time ran out, Runyon had not tried to hoard it. He had roamed the town more eagerly than ever, as if to take with him all he could of the sharp flavor of the characters he half-created, half-observed: Milk Ear Willie, Harry the Horse, Sam the Gonoph, Light-Finger Moe, and Regret, the horse player. He spent many nights cruising with Walter Winchell, his fellow Hearstling and perhaps his closest friend, chasing police calls...
...Educated Ear. Tabloid journalism would never get off the ground without such quotes, and such ears for them as smooth, chain-smoking David Buckley Charnay's. Newsman Charnay, 34, is a quiet fellow whom people like to confide in. He went to Public School 184, Walter Winchell's alma mater, and matriculated, like Winchell, on Broadway...
...attempt to measure undergraduate listening habits with an ear to selecting programs which have the greatest appeal, the Crimson Network will begin its first postwar college-wide polt tonight...
...William Chapman Foster of
New York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary
of Commerce.