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Meanwhile, at Johns Hopkins, Surgeon Alfred Blalock worked with Pediatrician Helen Taussig on Fallot's tetralogy, developed their famous blue-baby operation (since 1944 Blalock and his assistants have done 1,500 such operations, with about 85% long-term survivals...
Died. William Johnson, 41, tall, bearded baritone who starred in the Broadway musical Pipe Dream (opposite Helen Traubel), replaced Alfred Drake in Kismet (1954), sang the male lead in the London productions of Annie Get Your Gun and Kiss Me, Kate; of a heart attack; in Flemington...
...weak. The spirit, in fact, has just about vanished. The songs have no lilt, the lyrics no verve, the sketches no crackle. The dancing has its bits of color and movement, but never the slightest distinction. In such feckless fandangos, the better performers-Billy De Wolfe, Harold Lang and Helen Wood-are largely wasted, while most other performers only make things worse...
...Helen Frankenthaler. 28, well-to-do Bennington College graduate ('49), a standout exhibitor in all three shows who ranks high with the elder Abstract Expressionists as one of the few painters to follow in their wake, manages to give her intensely lyric, free-flow paintings a recognizably personal stamp. Up to using anything from a paint pot to her foot to gain her effects, she occasionally relaxes by switching to a meticulous landscape or realistic self-portrait. Says Painter Frankenthaler of her abstract work, "I just start to see what happens. You want clues? There are no clues...
Clara Mae's main competition for the Miss Informed title are Ivy (Marguerite Tarrant) and the house mother, Miss Havisham (Helen Bee) who gives the girls the benefit of the knowledge gained from her old house in Atlantic City. The rest of the plot comes with the romance of bashful bohemian Fred (John Baker) and his less-shaggy but more-shrewd soul force Priscilla (Sallie Wolfe). Baker's voice is shaky, but he was a solidly insecure bohemian. Miss Wolfe's singing voice is pleasant, but her acting was wooden. As Fred's intellectual playmate, Alice Oberg's red hair...