Word: philadelphias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ears when an American orthopedic surgeon told of a plastic glue that foams and hardens after being poured into the hollow channels of broken or diseased bones, seems to have no toxic effects. Last week the medical world was evaluating a progress report by Dr. Michael P. Mandarino of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital that the plastic glue was 94% successful in the treatment of 250 cases...
...twelve years the Guild has added only 6,560 new members, has made little or no effort to plaster the gaping holes in its ranks, e.g., such traditional holdouts as the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal, the Detroit News, the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Omaha World-Herald. "We won't come through Omaha," says Guild Executive Vice President William J. Farson, "until someone asks us." Of some 1,750 U.S. dailies, the Guild has contracts with only 176, is so unambitious an explorer of virgin territory that organizing new locals...
Self Zipper. For women who have a hard time zipping up the backs of their dresses, L.M.B. Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia is selling the Zip Master, a long nylon cord with a brass spring fastener that clips onto the slide tab. Price...
...last 18 months, Ethel Barrymore was virtually an invalid in her home in Beverly Hills, suffering from arthritis and heart disease. Her brothers had long since made their exits, John in 1942, Lionel in 1954. Still she remained the pleasantly abrupt commentator who once told an audience of Philadelphia clubwomen that they were moronic, who thought television was hell (although she had tried that, too). She remained an avid boxing and baseball fan ("I might have liked football, but I always had Saturday matinees and couldn't get to games"). And she kept up her reading; her home bulged...
...Associated Harvard Clubs, the organization of 120 national and 20 foreign Harvard Clubs, has announced the election of its new officers. Maurice Heckscher '28, of Fort Washington, Pa., is the new president. He is a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Duane, Morris and Heckscher...