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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marcucci was in trouble. His little Philadelphia recording company (Chancellor Records) had been cashing in on the slim voice of a skinny, second-rate Sinatra named Frankie Avalon. But now Avalon was 17 and beginning to outgrow his appeal for the jukebox set. Busy as he was with his search for a replacement. Bob Marcucci took time to rush to the home of a South Philadelphia neighbor when he saw an ambulance drive up. Policeman Domenic Forte had suffered a heart attack, and Bob stuck around to help. Suddenly he had a vision. He turned to the sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Tuneless Tiger | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Lung cancer is increasing faster than any other form of cancer, has a lower cure rate than most, will kill 35,000 Americans this year (85% of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cornering the Killer | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...After increasing alarmingly for a quarter-century, the death rate from leukemia in the North is leveling off, but is still rising rapidly in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cornering the Killer | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Knife & Rays. Treatment also is usually traditional: with surgery or X rays. For the most part, cancer specialists have to be content with five-or ten-year survival for their patients, and rate this as a substantial "cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cornering the Killer | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Shaw's image of the romantic man, a soft and chivalrous idealizer of woman, is not a completely successful character; as usual when Shaw attempts this type, the result here is a second-rate Shelly. Ellis Rabb makes the part into a delicate caricature of delicacy, amusingly undermining any possibility of our trying to take poor Octavius seriously--which may be just as well. Tom Martin is good as the new Leporello; Cavada Humphrey and Robert Rees Evans are adequate but labored as the heroine and hero of a romantic subplot...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Man and Superman | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

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