Word: heards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delattre found "tremendous vitality" in certain San Francisco coffee houses and taverns, where "the conversations were creative and there was a kind of acceptance that made freedom possible," and began to wonder if the church should not set up some taverns and coffee houses of its own. Then he heard that the Rev. Robert W. Spike, a general secretary of the Congregational Board of Home Missions, was interested in organizing the same kind of experiment. Delattre promptly applied for the job, landed it, and became a Congregationalist. "I'm not denominationally inclined," he explains. "I don't think...
Looking for the causes of "coronaries," medical men point accusing fingers at heredity, high-fat diets, emotional strain. Last week the American Psychosomatic Society met in Manhattan, heard a panel of experts examine the kinds of personalities most prone to heart attacks, re-emphasize the dangers of stress. Even the "lethalness of a high-fat diet in our society," noted Dr. Henry I. Russek, consultant in cardiovascular research for the U.S. Public Health Service, "seems to be dependent on the 'catalytic influence' of stressful living...
...leading lady was almost dumb with stage fright. On opening night in Philadelphia, her lines faded into half-heard whispers, and the audience squirmed with shared embarrassment. Then a voice rasped down from the cheap seats: "Speak up, Ethel. You Drews is all good actors...
...have liked football, but I always had Saturday matinees and couldn't get to games"). And she kept up her reading; her home bulged with books. Friends came to call-veterans of the old days on the road and admirers from the new Hollywood-and no one ever heard a word of self-pity. One evening last week she woke for a moment from a short nap, grasped her nurse's hand and asked: "Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy." Then, at 79, Ethel Barrymore died...
...voracious reading of medical texts. Nevertheless, when assigned to Korean waters aboard the destroyer Cayuga, he performed such prodigies of battle surgery -an emergency amputation, the extraction of a bullet from the heart sac itself -that Cyr's story was published in Canadian newspapers. The real Dr. Cyr heard about...