Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matters little what a patient is suffering from. Dr. Niehans claims cures of dwarfism in children, underdeveloped genitals or breasts, obesity, mongolism, some forms of mental retardation, absence of menstruation, homosexuality, habitual abortion, low (but not high) blood pressure, cirrhosis of the liver, reduced sexual desire, impotence, arteriosclerosis, and some forms of heart disease. Diagnosis and treatment are decided on the basis of a still controversial urinalysis, in which the proportions of certain "ferments" are supposed to show which glands or organs are out of whack...
...treatment saved the Pope. Detractors argue that he wrongly diagnosed the illness (diaphragmatic hernia) as cancer, and was hustled out of the papal presence. What is certain is that as a reward for whatever he did, Dr. Niehans displays an autographed photograph on which the Pope wrote, in German, high praise of the cellular specialist. And in 1955 the Pope named him to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences...
...Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, riding the crest of the boom, reported its own record, a two-week nonholiday gross of $404,056, for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, well over the total of runner-up High Society. Additional Music Hall intelligence: Northwest's star, Gary Grant, is the Music Hall's male favorite; he has appeared there in 23 pictures that ran for a total of 75 weeks. Closest male competitor: Fred Astaire, with 14 pictures, 48 weeks...
...madness was muted in Laughton's performance. He played the scene almost in silence. The idea came to him, he says, during a hurricane-tossed Atlantic crossing. "Sitting in my cabin, I suddenly realized that in a storm you stop noticing the noise; as it stays at a high level, your hearing threshold falls. I tried out the Lear speech and heard it echo sharp and clear in my mind. That's the way it should be. The storm's inside Lear...
...Bible Belt. Many a once plain Methodist church in Georgia, Alabama and other Southern states goes in for robed minister and choirs, stained-glass windows, sermons on theology and the life of Jesus rather than hellfire and repentance; a few even have acolytes. To some Southern Methodists, it is high time to make a stand against this creeping formalism. Said the Rev. Pierce Harris of Atlanta's First Methodist Church last week: "If this keeps up, it will soon be difficult to tell Methodists from Episcopalians...