Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irresistible rays. Patients with deep-seated malignancies in other parts of the body also started treatment this week. Soon Dr. Harvey should be able to tell whether medicine's new weapon, which now costs $85,000, shows promise. If the answer is favorable, high-powered, penetrating X rays may be used in about 10% of cancer cases.* Whether they give lasting results cannot be known for several years...
Year in & year out radio's Mr. Anthony (now displaying his wares on Manhattan's WPIX-TV and WMGM) has been glibly solving the problems of his mumbling, star-crossed clients. Last May, This Is Broadway (Sun. 9 p.m., E.D.T., CBS-TV) opened a rival sideshow for somewhat higher I.Q.s. As an adviser for professional entertainers, Broadway promised to solve the "family worries, romantic entanglements and business troubles of the people who make the world laugh...
Effect & Pattern. With all the testimony in, the board retired for a fortnight to draft its recommendations. Though neither side has to accept the findings, they are bound to have a potent effect; the side that flouts them may well have to fight public opinion in case of a strike. The steelworkers have set a Sept. 14 deadline for an agreement-or a strike...
...using [Miss Mitchell's] death as a vehicle for rebuking the Roosevelts. We knew [her] well enough to know she made up her own mind . . . Certainly she would not [have been] swayed by the influence of an unwise, emotional Westbrook Pegler, an insensate Roosevelt-hater, whose column [may] have swayed and-deprived inferior minds...
Apart from such slippery stunts of cinemagic, Jolson Sings Again is a thumping good musical, handsomely mounted in Technicolor and zestfully played by a talented cast. The trouble is, it may launch a new and frighteningly inconclusive kind of serial. Hollywood gagsters have suggested that, 20 years hence, Columbia might do a musical entitled The Larry Parks Story, showing a young juvenile portraying Parks portraying Jolson...