Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what to do to fight the staph, the authorities give unanimous advice: ¶ Clean up the hospitals. ¶ Make doctors and nurses scrub up better, use heavier masks, take far more care in many details-e.g., changing their shoes when moving between surgical and nonsurgical areas...
...called on Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf to dub in two high Cs that Flagstad was unable to hit in Tristan und Isolde, Flagstad could not be lured before a microphone for nearly two years. But since then she has signed up with London Records, made 23 LPs, including a complete Götter-dämmerung, lieder by Richard Strauss, Schubert, Schumann, Hugo Wolf. The latest : an excellent third act of Die Walk...
Competitors charge that M.C.A. does little to build up stars, gets them by raiding other agencies, even has a vice-president in charge of raiding. But moviemakers such as former M-G-M Head Dore Schary say that M.C.A. deserves its success because it works hardest for its clients, constantly plans deals to boost their salaries and its commissions. In 1943 Schary had a dispute with MGM, chucked his job as head of "B" pictures. His own agent advised him to go back to M-G-M because he could not get him another job. But M.C.A...
Hoping to float a nuclear-powered tanker by 1961, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Maritime Administration last week awarded design-study contracts totaling $400,000 to General Electric Co. and Manhattan's George G. Sharp marine-engineering firm. The plan is to install a boiling-water reactor in a conventional T-5 tanker, now being built by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. at Pascagoula, Miss. The Sharp company also is designing the first U.S. atomic passenger and cargo ship, the N.S. Savannah, for launching in 1960. The Government hopes that lessons learned in building the Savannah will make the power...
...Place in Society. Last week the Southern editors finally got firsthand coverage of the racial angle in New York's school problem from a first-rate Southern reporter. To cover the story in depth the United Press assigned able, Georgia-born Alfred G. Kuettner, the U.P.'s longtime Atlanta bureau chief. Promised the U.P.'s Executive Editor Harry Ferguson: "If there are any squawks, I'll be your lawyer...