Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nigh irresistible. Rudy Vallee finally capitulated to M.C.A. and was signed to a big-time radio spot. Fred Waring and Paul Whiteman are among the few name bands still struggling along without Stein's M.C.A. Band leaders who want to get out have their difficulties, too. When Benny Goodman tried to break his contract, he was offered such humiliating bookings that he would not fill them, finally disbanded his musicians for a year...
Last week the cadaver crisis was viewed with alarm by experts on both sides of the Atlantic: Dr. Neville Goodman of London, Anatomist Melvin Knisely of the University of Chicago, Dr. Howard Curl of the University of Tennessee. The shortage is even worse in Britain than in the U.S.; British students have been cut down from a prewar standard of 16 students per body to an average of 20 students. The most serious shortage, both in Britain and the U.S., is of female bodies (especially young ones), important for the training of obstetricians and gynecologists. At best, only about...
Blackest Market. Perhaps by way of warning, Dr. Goodman darkly reviews in the British Medical Journal the long history of dissection, which got its start on the bodies of criminals and engendered the blackest of black markets-the traffic in corpses. By the 18th Century there was a flourishing body-snatching industry in England and America. At standard prices (which in England rose gradually from ?2 to ?14) these businessmen guaranteed to deliver to a medical school any given body, sometimes snatching a corpse almost from under its mourners' noses. From grave-robbing, dealers in cadavers took to replenishing...
...Show (by Ruth Goodman and Augustus Goetz; produced by Jed Harris) concerns a middle-aged widower and his daughter (Frank Conroy & Constance Cummings) who run an art gallery. Attractive and sought after, the girl is indifferent to other men because she is pathologically attached to her father. The father tries to cut the cord between them; the girl holds tight...
...Terre Haute, Ind., Mrs. Evaleen Goodman, 54, was fatally injured in an auto wreck...