Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came close to realizing its greatest potential: The Moon and Sixpence (NBC) presented Sir Laurence Olivier with a script that, despite faults, gave his immense talent full range. Somerset Maugham's biting novel of a man in the grip of artistic demons was formidable for transformation into less than 90 minutes of television drama. Before Playwright S. Lee (People Kill People Sometimes) Pogostin was called in, along with Director Bob Mulligan, two other scriptwriters had fumbled the job. After 48 hours packed with pencil work, pep pills and black coffee, Pogostin and Mulligan had built a play that pleased...
Last week, run down at last by dogged gumshoeing, Mr. Grey went to trial in Manhattan's General Sessions Court on charges of tampering with boxing. He had made a career of slipping the law's punches. Back in 1930 he had served less than a year for manslaughter, but over the years he had beaten five raps for murder. At 55, boxing's strong arm looked like a tired old man. His face was drawn, and he was suffering from diabetes. Even elevator shoes failed to give his 5-ft. 8-in. figure any stature...
What they attempted was nothing less than regrafting a severed limb to a trunk, although a successful operation after so long a time has never been recorded.* The conditions looked promising. The severed leg had been tipped up at an angle, and it was drained of blood; had blood remained, ruinous clots would have formed. The doctors' first job was to restore the blood flow, thus restore some life to the limb. Before cleaning the leg fully, they stitched together the ends of the main artery, then the main vein. Quickly taking circulation from the trunk, the leg turned...
...firing is rarely necessary. Du Pont has treated 900 problem drinkers under its program. The cure rate: 66%. The cost: less than $100 per rehabilitation...
...healthier than women, in the sense that they complain of fewer illnesses and stay home from work less often. But women are hardier and live longer. Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., 41, reporting this seemingly contradictory finding (by a New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center research team), explains it thus: women have fewer of the serious disorders (notably heart and artery diseases) that kill men in their prime...