Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservative New England Journal of Medicine recently jumped on "the erroneous conception that malaria can be eradicated by means of a five-day treatment with the synthetic drug, atabrine." Attacking an article ("Enter Atabrine-Exit Malaria") written by Paul de Kruif in the Reader's Digest, the Journal pointed out that there is as yet no sure cure for malaria, that the disease and its problems are anything but simple...
...Marjorie Lawrence, once the most glamorous of Metropolitan Sieglindes and Brünnhildes. She had made her last exit from that stage mounted on a bay charger at the close of Wagner's Götterdämmerung on March 22, 1941. Since then Marjorie Lawrence had been fighting a battle few thought she could win. Her antagonist: infantile paralysis...
When Brahms was first played by the Boston Symphony, the whole town more or less seethed. It was suggested by one critic that the regular exit signs be replaced by others saying, "This way out in case of Brahms." Now, however, Koussevitsky could play an all-Cole-Porter program and hardly a dowagerly eyebrow would be raised. It is probably no exaggeration to say that unless music recovers its direct person-to-person relationship with audiences, it won't survive as an art in its present form. We are at a turning point now, and it is hard to predict...
...Miami Beach Army stockade saw the woman, aging (40) Ursula Parrott, author of Ex-Wife and herself four times married, hide the handsome boyfaced soldier prisoner in the back of her car. He shouted for her to halt. She stepped on the gas and charged for the exit gate. Escaping in this reverse Lochinvar was Private Michael Neely Bryan, 26, once a very hot guitar player with Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. He had been locked up for flying to New York without permission; also the FBI was investigating charges that he was involved in the transport of narcotics...
...Boston newspaper ran a two-word banner line: BUSBOY BLAMED. But the busboy had not put up the Cocoanut Grove's tinder-box decorations, nor was he responsible for the fact that Boston's laws do not require nightclubs to have fireproof fixtures, sprinkler systems or exit markers...