Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Arturo Toscanini, the NBC Symphony became one of the world's finest orchestras. Last spring, when Toscanini retired, the NBC Symphony died, leaving three-quarters of its 92 members without regular work. But the orchestral ghost would not give up. Members met with the orchestra's radio producer, Don Gillis, formed a committee and decided that there was a fighting chance for a comeback. Last week the group incorporated as the Symphony Foundation of New York, adopted the name Symphony of the Air, and went out to look for business. Likeliest projects: 1) concerts in a theater...
...Folsom man, known by his peculiar, fluted spearheads. These "points" have turned up in many parts of the U.S., and since they have been found with the bones of extinct animals, they are supposed to be about 10,000 years old. But Folsom man himself is an anthropological ghost; his own bones have not been found...
...fluorine content, which increases with age. He decided that their age is about the same. Since the animals lived in the Pleistocene (glacial) era, "Midland man" must be Pleistocene too. He may have lived anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 years before Folsom man, who therefore remains a ghost, but is no longer the oldest American...
...clubs. He has invested in a California golf course and Florida real estate. He and Ted Williams are co-owners of a fishing-tackle company. Endorsements bring in a good stipend and three gleaming Nashes each year. He has made a golfing record, several films, draws royalties from four ghost-written books and a ghosted golfing column. And, like all the top pros, he makes money gambling on the game...
Since Mrs. Howarth had at least known that Dr. Walters was being called in, the case was not the worst example of the evils of ghost surgery. But the San Diego society evidently agreed with Dr. Hawley, who said last year: "No surgeon should do any cutting until he has examined the patient himself. [A] ghost surgeon simply cuts where he is told to cut and takes no responsibility for anything that happens afterward...