Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's vast, grey Bellevue Hospital, doctors last week demonstrated the work of a new model institute, the first of its kind, for rehabilitation of the civilian disabled. A joint venture of the hospital and New York University's College of Medicine (which are raising $2,500,000 to give the institute a building of its own), it is directed by Dr. Howard A. Rusk, who ran the A.A.F.'s wartime convalescence program. The institute, Rusk explained, hopes to spur a nation-wide attack on a problem greater than that of disabled veterans: disabled civilians. During World...
...Freeman used to render his soles in the "hesitation" style, i.e., he would pause every three or four bars to think up a new idea, and this procedure made his work come out like a patchwork quilt. The new post-war model is smoother and more continuous. When not given to abandoned flights of the imagination and on tunes which are not so fast and gusty that they shake the instrumentalists out of all their ideas before the record is half through, Freeman's acrid, trembling tone and curious phrasing can, as in this case, produce tasteful and distinctive music...
...company finds limb manufacturers willing to make and fit them), are the first products of artificial limb research launched by the Government 21 months ago. A civilian committee, now under the National Research Council, has spent $500,000 on research, has $1,200,000 more to spend. But Model A is not yet in sight...
...Terry and the wartime Male Call (for the G.I. press) Caniff poured fast-breaking dialogue, credible adventure - and one touch of Venus. He knocked himself out to make his brain children (he has no others) seem real. His Dragon Lady, Burma and Miss Lace were fashioned after lush, living models. (Steve Canyon's mean and sexy villainess, Copper Calhoon, was drawn from a model, Carol Ohmart, "Miss Utah...
Among the future activities discussed yesterday are a model U.N. session to be held at Smith College at the end of February, and a "political laboratory" being formed here that will feature foreign students presenting the views of their home governments...