Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most laymen, mention of anything seriously wrong with the circulation of the blood suggests trouble in the heart or the arteries leading to the brain; rarely do they consider the kidneys. But more than half of all U.S. deaths are classed technically as due to "cardiovascular-renal" diseases, and last week the American Heart Association marked its annual fund drive with new emphasis on the renal (kidney) part of the triad. Most notable exhibits: "artificial kidneys," which are now saving lives at a growing number of U.S. medical centers...
...Holler), love songs (I Do Adore Her), songs of thanksgiving (Merci Bon Dieu), an Israeli Hora (Hava Nageela). Belafonte has developed a remarkable emotional pantomime to match the content of his songs. In John Henry, he hunches his tall, lithe body (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.) in a half crouch, knots his fists, launches into the verses with teeth clenched and a spasmodic toss of his head...
...says MacDougall, "but he cried. Oh, God, how he cried!" On screen or off, Belafonte has a kind of visual magnetism that emerges whenever he moves. Says MacDougall: "People can recognize Harry Belafonte even when he's walking across an 80-foot screen looking about one and a half inches tall...
...every woman will say, 'What a bitch Anne Edwards is.' " For the next dozen years, blonde, blue-eyed Columnist Edwards was as sassy as she could be for Lord Beaverbrook's bustling Daily Express (circ. 4,084,603). Her weekly 8-in. column grew to a half page as she worked over tempting targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once ran a picture showing the rumpled derriere of the Queen's gown, cattily commented that wrinkleproof fabric evidently was unknown at Buckingham Palace. Drawn by Anne...
...fortnightly Vision (circ. 113,315), a notably uncontentious Spanish-language business-news magazine that is flown into 19 Latin American countries. Visão (circ. 45,886), a sister publication to Visión, is a Portuguese-language news weekly in Brazil. In addition, the company has a half interest in Semana, a news weekly published in Bogota, Colombia, owns the profitable business-pamphleteering ("Just Between Office Girls") National Foremen's Institute...