Word: lungfuls
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...women so cut off by the snows, the desert or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them") to his subjects over the radio. Elizabeth's father George VI insisted on making the broadcast even while wasting away after the removal of a lung, painfully recording a phrase or two at a time in an agonizing ordeal that took two days...
...record companies have put out a huge repertory, covering the range of chamber music from its charming origins in Renaissance Italy and England to Schoenberg's atonal lung-and-mind exercise, the Quintet for Wind Instruments, Op. 26 (Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Columbia) and beyond. Eight of Boccherini's Quintets, sparkling with gaiety and glowing with warm Italian exuberance, have been polished up and lovingly presented on four LPs with two more to come (Quintette Boccherini; Angel). All of Haydn's 80-odd Quartets were planned for recording, and 47 were put on vinyl by the Haydn Society...
...training program is largely the work of Eliot who states his main objectives as: "strength building, endurance conditioning, and development of body control in the air." He also has taken lung capacity tests of all his skiers and is dickering with large concerns to obtain some plastic "snow" which will be placed on the JV football field for cross-country practice...
...study councils to make recommendations. Most of the time, Van Slyke and his advisers were right in their choice of projects to back, notably research with anti-TB drugs, the momentous blood-fractionation work of Harvard's late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Sept. 12, 1953), various artificial heart, lung and kidney machines, basic studies seeking better understanding and treatment of heart disease. Ironically, Dr. Van Slyke could not attend last week's Lasker Awards luncheon in Manhattan. The sometime director (1948-52) of the National Heart Institute was at home recovering from a heart attack...
Died. Erie Palmer Halliburton, 65, cranky, crusty farm-boy-to-riches oil tycoon, inventor of new methods of oil-well cementing (his "jet mixer" paved the way for mass production of well casings); after a three-year lung illness; in Los Angeles. Once so broke his wife had to pawn her wedding ring, Halliburton got his break in 1919 when he controlled a wild oil well for the late Oklahoma Wildcatter "Wild Bill" Skelly. formed his own company in 1920 (the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. last year grossed $176,464,666), spread his empire into many fields, including pioneer...