Word: hitted
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George Gershwin's classic opera, Porgy and Bess, has finally come to Boston (it opens today at the Astor), heralding, it claims, "a new era in motion pictures." This may be something of an overstatement; but let it be said here and now that Porgy is a mammoth, melliflous hit...
Still hardest hit were the year's first epidemic areas. Kansas City, Mo. and Des Moines (TIME, July 13). Near epidemic rates were noted in Little Rock, Ark., Wichita, Kans., Lincoln, Neb., Montgomery, Ala. and Oklahoma City. Clusters of cases occurred in New Haven, Conn., Yonkers, N.Y., Charleston, W. Va. and Nashville, Tenn. True to the early-season pattern, outbreaks were mainly in slum areas. Though many victims had had one or two shots of vaccine, few had had the three-dose course, fewer still the fourth (booster) shot now recommended...
...economists now expect that-barring a steel strike more than six weeks long-the economy will roll steadily on to $490 billion in the current quarter. Then only a few weeks will separate it from the half-trillion-dollar threshold. At that rate of growth, the U.S. economy will hit the $750 billion mark before...
...Small. At Chrysler Corp., hardest hit of the big automakers in last year's sales slump, the comeback was equally bouncy. Saddled with a loss for both the second quarter and the entire year...
...Frederick) Spilhaus, 47, dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, tossing his huge head at cocktail parties and spouting fantastic scientific ideas faster than water flows over Minnehaha Falls. Last year Spilhaus' friend, William Steven, executive editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, hit on the idea of harnessing this awesome flow by getting the learned professor to do a scientific comic strip. As a result, a Spilhaus-scripted strip, Our New Age, now appears weekly in 102 U.S. and 19 foreign newspapers. The professor earns about $193 a week, and thousands of Americans...