Word: eardrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start that it was no woman's world, she thought a "newspaper girl" had as much right to report what was happening as anyone else. Correspondent Carpenter stayed until V-E day and beyond, ended up with a new feeling of authority on military strategy, a shattered eardrum (enemy bombing) and a fiancé: Colonel Russell F. Akers Jr. of the U.S. First Army staff...
Frank Sinatra's left eardrum kept him out of the Army. He made a sleeper-jump from a Boston date to one with the Army's doctors in Newark, learned that the drum was punctured, learned that he ought to get more sleep, learned that he was now 4-F, moved on to a two-week stand in Pittsburgh...
Rosamond Mowrer, wife of famed Foreign Correspondent Richard Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News, sat down in Washington to put through a telephone call to her husband in Cairo. After an hour and a half's wait full of eardrum uproar, she heard from the international operator...
...University to study dentistry. When graduation neared in 1941, Nome's only physician, Dr. Thomas Morcam, arrived at Northwestern to interest a dentist in Nome's teeth. Several volunteered, but Kennedy got the job because of his eagerness, brash temperament, lack of family ties, and a perforated eardrum which the Army found distasteful...
Manhattan playgoers last week saw Vickie (by S. M. Herzig; produced by Frank Mandel) do a bad job with a good idea. A satire on U.S. women's war activities, it attacked the funny bone by way of the eardrum, failed as farce because it was never funny...