Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draped woman patient on the operating table at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan's Greenwich Village was almost ready for surgery. Her left breast was bared for the surgeon's knife to remove a benign growth. But the patient had been given no anesthesia, was fully conscious. Beside the surgeon stood Chicago's Dr. William S. Kroger, taking the place of the anesthesiologist. His substitute for anesthesia: hypnosis...
...death total reversed a steady, month-by-month (for 19 months) increase, said the National Safety Council. If the trend to more careful driving continues, the U.S.'s road toll for 1956 should hold below the council's earlier death estimate of 42,000-the population of Greenwich, Conn., Oshkosh, Wis. or Vancouver, Wash...
Died. Thomas Francis (Tommy) Dorsey Jr., 51, hot-tempered hot trombonist and bespectacled "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"; of suffocation in his sleep during an attack of nausea; in Greenwich, Conn. Tommy and his elder brother, Saxophonist Jimmy, called their first band (1920) "Dorsey's Novelty Six," later razzed up the title to "Dorsey's Wild Canaries." The Dorseys riffed through the jazz-dazzled '20s under Bandleaders Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and Rudy Vallee, by 1934 had formed the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra, within a year hit the bigtime of the big-band era. Then Tommy stomped...
...time it happened, back in 1940, no one really did ascertain the facts of the case, since the two students involved fled from the elevator's wreckage before they could be questioned. Last week, however, a Greenwich Village weekly newspaper, the Village Voice, published an interview with Paul M. Hollister, Jr. '41, a local author and painter. Half the article was devoted to his recollections on cracking up the elevator...
...veteran of 30 years in show business, was back at work in TV-and just in time to inject some merriment into TV's procession of tired clowns. In a $1,500,000 musical potpourri called Washington Square, a sentimental paean to Manhattan's self-consciously picturesque Greenwich Village, Hoofer Bolger is making his second attempt (his first live series) to win on TV the success he long ago won on the stage...