Word: millers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want a novel by Henry Miller or William S. Burroughs, a back issue of Playboy or U.S. Camera, or any one of several hundred sociological and medical textbooks, do not waste your time in the stacks. These items are not for the undiscerning eye of the casual browser...
...split off in 1960 to study acting. Though he had earned $5,000 his last week as one of the brothers, he took a $4,960-a-week cut to work off-Broadway in a revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, jumped later to the lead in national companies of The Fantasticks and Carnival. Next came a stint on Broadway in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was set in a mental hospital and featured Ed as a schizophrenic Indian...
Died. Martin Block, 64, radio's original platter and patter man; during heart surgery; in Englewood, N.J. "It's Make-Believe Ballroom time," purled the theme song. "Put all your cares away." And millions did-to the tunes of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore. For the Ballroom's affable host, the recorded performers always came alive. "Great job, Benny," Block would applaud. "You never sounded better." The make-believe began in 1935 at New York's WNEW when Block's boss told him to pad news bulletins from the Lindbergh kidnap trial...
Cast-Off Antlers. The poster for an off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge was done after Shahn had seen the play at rehearsal. He found it "very powerful, very moving." Shahn's watercolor, Branches of Water or Desire, reflects his admiration for the poetry of his son-in-law, Alan Dugan, who won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 with his first volume. The picture illustrates one of the poems, which begins...
...Tube Growths. X rays and other forms of radiation have long been known to cause breaks in chromosomes. So have some viruses and a few drugs used in the treatment of cancer. To these must now be added drugs of many types. Columbia University's Dr. O. Jack Miller noted that the widely used "major tranquilizer," chlorpromazine (Thorazine), has been shown to produce breaks in a few cases, and even the antihistamine diphenhydramine (Benadryl) in one case. Western Reserve's Dr. Mor ton Stenchever added the popular minor tranquilizers chlordiazepoxide and diazepam (Librium and Valium) to the list...