Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Ella Fitzgerald, 35, buxom Negro jazz songstress (A Tisket, A Tasket): her second husband, Bass Fiddle Player Ray Brown, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...himself under the care of Dr. Claude E. Forkner, no cancer specialist but an internist. Using the name Howard Roberts Jr., Taft entered Manhattan's topnotch New York Hospital, right across the street from Memorial. Specialists from Memorial consulted with New York's staff. Taft received X-ray treatments which relieved the pain in his hip, and transfusions to combat anemia. To find out whether something more could be done, the doctors recommended an exploratory operation...
...with many pesthole slums, cut its lung-tuberculosis death rate from 37 per 100,000 in 1945 to 16 in 1952. Though this was the period when streptomycin worked its greatest wonders, Pennsylvania laid the basis for continuing betterment. More unsuspected cases are being found through mass X-ray programs, and 36 centers for surgical treatment have been set up. Vaccination with BCG is being tested. However, Pennsylvania still needs nearly twice as many beds as it has (3,902) for TB patients...
Said the Ford Foundation's Robert Hutchins: "The patriotism of the Los Angeles school board was so intense that it developed an X-ray eye that enabled it to see Henry Ford II, Benson Ford, Donald David of the Harvard School of Business, and the other men who dominate the Ford Foundation as Communist agents...
...plot is one of those farfetched todos about a wife (Jane Wyman) who discovers that her husband (Ray Milland) has been playfully running around Manhattan with a specialist in tribal-ritual puberty dances (Valerie Bettis) when he was supposed to have been in Chicago on business. In retaliation, she invents a romance of her own. This leads to divorce proceedings. The trio becomes a foursome when a rich square (Aldo Ray) from the Klondike stakes out a romantic claim on Jane during the interlocutory period of the divorce. All in all, Let's Do It Again strains too hard...