Word: larynx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young idol-apparent, renamed Kris Carson by Promoter Lincoln, is dead serious about making a success as a singer, chiefly because he wants enough money to be able to support himself while he writes. Merton College Tutor Hugo Dyson is not worried that Kris will abandon literature for the larynx, calls Kris "one of the most favorable specimens of Rhodes scholarship" and "the kind of man you can trust to pick his own career." Stable Owner Lincoln finds his deep-thinking discovery "rather frightening." In case plans go sour, he has figured out an alternate road to fame. "If this...
...Last week Winters displayed his loony magic in Chicago's Black Orchid nightclub, racing hysterically through his varied roles-from a harassed father scared of his own kids, to the whole cast of a jail break complete with the rataplan of a Tommy gun, produced by his elastic larynx. "As long as someone laughs," says a friend, "Johnny is on. And someone is always laughing." Johnny was "on" the night he toured Manhattan bistros with an empty hand grenade (pulling the pin, he would cry: "Everybody goes when the whistle blows"). He was "on" when he panicked a staid...
While sounding out a bill to establish an official version of the larynx-bursting national anthem, a House Judiciary subcommittee listened to an expert on the subject: "Star-Spangled Soprano" Lucy Monroe, who has sung the anthem some 5,000 times (by her count) at World Series games, conventions and other public gatherings. Her recommendation: lower a few of the top notes, maybe, but "I feel strongly the basic melody should not be altered...
...among Adventist men as among other men (though equally common in women of both groups), and occurred at later ages: only 2% before age 44, as against 8% among non-Adventists; 12% before 54, as against 30%; and 38% before 64, as against 62%. ¶Cancer of the mouth, larynx or gullet, which has been associated by Dr. Wynder with a combination of heavy smoking and hard drinking (TIME, June 13, 1955) was only 10% as frequent among Adventist males; the single case recorded was cancer...
Walter continued his studies at Fordham Law School, graduated in 1930, and got himself engaged to Kay Hanson; his childhood sweetheart. A shy, pretty girl, Kay developed a cancer of the larynx. In one of the first such operations ever performed successfully, her larynx was removed, and Kay was never able to talk again. Walter saw no reason to change any of their plans. But his father stormily forbade the marriage. "She's the same girl I fell in love with," insisted Walter. And so they were married, and have raised a close-knit family of two children-Terry...