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Word: irma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phil Harris Show, a wisecracking role that he formerly played under the name of Frankie Remley. His wife, Cathy, works hard, too: she spends six days a week rehearsing and playing the part of Marie Wilson's long-suffering roommate in the radio & TV My Friend Irma. But she is beginning to weaken and, next fall, probably will not renew her TV commitments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Full Steam Ahead | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...minutes to 46. Instead of the usual thrill music, he used themes from Verdi operas as bridges between the action. As Othello, Elliott effectively portrayed the Moor's high-minded simplicity. Cathy played Desdemona as smoothly and efficiently as she plays her comedy roles in My Friend Irma. The real star of the first show was Richard Widmark as the villainous lago, full of silky menace and tortured hate. Lewis admits that his own "hammy ambition" is the chief reason for the attempt on Shakespeare, but he is quick to add: "I also think Othello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Full Steam Ahead | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Irma Marie Miller, 29, a waitress, had spent the last ten years in the shadow of the hospital. Her thyroid and parathyroids had been removed for fear of a fatal dis ease. She needed daily doses of thyroid extract. And to make up for the loss of the parathyroids, which control the body's use of calcium, she had to visit the hospital four times a day. on the average, for injections of calcium to save her from muscular spasms which might have choked her to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Transplanted Gland | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...that if he could not be saved, his thyroid gland should not be wasted. In his fourth week, the baby died. Within minutes, his thyroid and parathyroids were removed, with about an inch of each of the four main blood vessels attached. The operating room was got ready for Irma Miller, and, as soon as she arrived for an injection, she was whisked to the table. The surgeons decided to insert the baby's thyroid in her groin (instead of its usual place in the neck), because the blood vessels are the right size and the site is protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Transplanted Gland | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...days later, and again after four months, tests with a tiny dose of radioactive iodine and a Geiger counter showed that the oddly placed thyroid was functioning. Irma Miller has needed no more thyroid extract or calcium injections. She is going to be married, and Dr. Sterling is going to give the bride away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Transplanted Gland | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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