Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RAY W. BRACHER...
...machine checks up on the behavior of blood vessels, which register emotional upsets by expanding and contracting abnormally. Tulane's Drs. George E. Burch and Clarence T. Ray, searching for a simple means of registering psychosomatic disturbances "objectively," used a "plethysmograph." The subject sticks his finger tip into a plastic cup, and the machine records the finger's alternate swelling and contraction by measuring the tiny changes in the cup's air volume...
...built their self-styled "spindustry" out of thin air mildly resent the big-names brigade, but have few financial beefs. Los Angeles' Al Jarvis (KLAC), the favorite in Southern California, takes in $190,000; Arthur Godfrey (Manhattan's WCBS and Washington's WTOP) makes $150,000. Ray Perkins (Denver's KFEL), top jockey in the Rocky Mountain region, isn't bragging about what he makes, but he likes Colorado. Jockey Jack Eigen has the newest gimmick: a wee-hours disc show in the lounge of Manhattan's glossy Copacabana nightclub. The chance to chatter...
...show is not a new phenomenon in show business, nor is it a temporary one. Maurice Chevalier recently gladdened the hearts of local audiences in his post-war American revival tour. Now it's Ray Bolger's turn, and the results are equally pleasant--though it should be noted that "Three to Make Ready" is a one-man show in effect but not in design...
Back from a year-long run on Broadway, the man with the India-rubber legs and the pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...