Word: roslyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to bring you our rivers. I wish you to hear our country, that you should smell our woods, feel our Slavic heart." She belted out a couple of rousing folk songs, wound up with a teary Tenderly that touched every expatriate-loving heart (fee: $50-$80). Pretty Roslyn Rensch, harpist ("a program of rare charm and beauty for discriminating audiences"), strummed out Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms and Around the World in 80 Days. She was fine until she ran into some trouble on about the 76th day, but her pluck won nice applause...
...weeks after a daring, touch-and-go operation to replace a diseased part of his aorta (TIME, Jan. 13), six-year-old David Fleming Jr. received the press at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, N.Y. Photographers got appealing shots, reporters got one quote: "I want to go home." Two days later David was out of bed for the first time, had better circulation than before the operation. Doctors expected to let him go home within a fortnight...
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Died. Christopher Darlington Morley, 66, bearded poet, essayist, critic, playwright, author of some 50 books (Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop, Thunder on the Left, Kitty Foyle); of a cerebral thrombosis after a long illness; in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Twice editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1937, 1948), authority on Joseph Conrad, Kit Morley also delighted in daffy verse, wrote LIFE'S editor on a Battle of Britain story (1941) in which the battlefield 80 miles long, 38 wide and from five to six high was described as a "cube...
While Dr. Leo M. Taran was gathering ideas for a new operating suite, to be built at St. Francis Hospital and Sanatorium for Cardiac Children at suburban Roslyn, N.Y., he visited dozens of U.S. hospitals and inspected their equipment for delicate heart surgery. Always he ended by asking his hosts: "What's wrong with it?" And always, from their experience, they could suggest improvements. Last week, as medical director of St. Francis, Dr. Taran unveiled the operating suite that he had planned as a result of these studies. It had everything...