Word: riper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polio publicity has made polio research dollar-rich, while other less dramatized diseases are dime-poor. In spite of research, however, there is no known way to prevent polio nor to cure it. Addressing the First International Poliomyelitis Conference in Manhattan last week, Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said: "We may be fighting not one disease, but a whole family of slightly related diseases. We do know already that there are several strains of infantile paralysis capable of producing clinical symptoms, but we do not know how closely related these virus...
...struggling with big & little family crises during an old-fashioned Fourth of July. Most of the trouble is started by son Richard (Mickey Rooney), a sensitive high-school senior who reads such radical thinkers as Shaw, Wilde and Ibsen. After innocently quoting a few of Swinburne's riper lines in a letter to his best girl, Richard is forbidden to see her again. Heartbroken, he vows to burn himself out in wild debauchery, settles for two sloe-gin fizzes with a local café dancer (Marilyn Maxwell...
Next day, already a much riper observer, Ingersoll shared with PM's readers "an interim conclusion . . . both sides are guilty of exaggeration, oversimplification and intense partisanship...
...peddled in the U.S. as a spectacle. As spectacle, this Gabriel Pascal production does itself proud-from stupendous Technicolor replicas of Ptolemaic Egypt down to intimate studies of the young Queen's décolletage. But all the munificent movie art does not conceal art of a rarer, riper kind: the dialogue for this superspectacle was written by a great master of prose and of wit, George Bernard Shaw. By & large, the playing is worthy of the dialogue...
...coincidence Attorney General Walter D. Van Riper, who had come in to clean out Hague's bailiwick, was being tried last week in Federal Court on embarrassing charges-dealing in black-market gasoline. And Hague's opposition, the "Liberation ticket," had split in mid-campaign. Four of its members were accusing a fifth of selling out to the Boss...