Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle's hoked-up TV life: her eighth birthday party to which no one came ("I'll show them. When I grow up I'll give a party where the mostes' people in the whole world come!"); the social errors in Pittsburgh ("Escargots? I thought they were snails"); the Washington party at which the offstage "voice" of Harry Truman sounded like Tennessee Ernie Ford. At show's end Perle Mesta presided in person over the teavee, pouring on more whipped cream about her good works with foreign students ("This...
...Band's concert tour begins in Boston on March 29, at Symphony Hall. Other performances will be given at Carnegie Hall, Albany, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Washington...
Rolling Stone. In Pittsburgh, Anna Mae Alwine, 26, was flattered when the customer at the bar admired her $135 diamond engagement ring, passed it over for a better look, gaped when he dropped it, seemed to kick it across the floor, out the door and, she told police, off into the night...
Cavities & a Grave. Dr. James L. Gilmore, a Pittsburgh obstetrician, had consulted Graham about what he believed to be a lung abscess. Graham jolted him with the news: it was cancer. Gilmore went home to Pittsburgh to decide whether he wanted an operation to remove the diseased part of his lung. In a few days he returned, ready for the operation, and told Surgeon Graham that while in Pittsburgh he had had some teeth filled. Said Graham with a laugh: "I like an optimistic patient." Replied Gilmore: "Yes, but I ought to tell you that I also bought a cemetery...
...never known doctors to be so unanimous," said Dr. F. Lee, the obstetrician in charge of the drive. "Why in the whole thing, I've only been called an s.o.b. once." Most medical groups in other cities were either slicing or eliminating vaccination fees. Clinics in and around Pittsburgh have shot some 170,000 people under 20 in the past month. Houston hopes to inoculate 200,000 during a twelve-hour polio blitz on St. Patrick...