Word: helens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lois Harris, 22, leaned back luxuriously in her bed, which can be raised or lowered for comfort simply by pressing a button, and declared: "This is really living. Modern homes have nothing on this." Her roommate, Mrs. Helen Sigmund, 26, agreed. Tired for the moment of looking through the plate-glass sliding doors at the shrub-covered hillside above Los Angeles' famed Sunset Boulevard, she simply reached up and pulled a switch. Automatically, yellow cloth curtains rippled across, closing in the room. Said Mrs. Sigmund: "We'll be spoiled rotten by the time they take us home...
...Helen Hayes...
...with Saturday Night Revue, NBC stuck to the familiar variety format as a showcase for some likable new talent. Starring Composer Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael and directed by Sid Miller (who often plays literate TV comedy with Donald O'Connor), the Revue introduced a Martha Raye-type comedienne named Helen Halpin, rubber-faced Comic Jackie Kannon ( I studied dramatics under Senator McCarthy"), and, best of the lot, George Gobel, who deadpanned a funny monologue about a lost bowling ball. Some other changes this month...
When Child Specialist Helen Taussig and Surgeon Alfred Blalock (after years of experiments on animals) worked out a solution to the blue-baby problem, their proposal looked daring indeed: to revamp the arteries close to the heart so that more blood is pumped to the lungs to get its full quota of oxygen. It worked. Within a year, 80 of the blue boys and blue girls operated on at Johns Hopkins went home a healthy pink, and were soon able to run and play as if nothing had ailed them. The children thus saved from crippling and early death...
...Chile, Helen Keller, 72, on a two-month Latin American lecture tour, was marooned for three days in the resort city of Chillan by a storm which took ten lives. A Chilean air-force plane, ordered to the scene by President Carlos Ibáñez, came to the rescue...