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Nose in the Air. Evelyn came to radio a roundabout way that began in Reedville, Va., where she sang in a Methodist choir, played Mabel in a high-school production of The Pirates of Penzance, and acquired an altitudinous nose-tilt that earned her the nickname "Little Miss God." After graduation, she breezed into Washington's Station WRC, asked for a singing job, and got one-a 10 a.m. spot twice a week over NBC. The pay: $16 a broadcast...
...proceeding data is a roundabout introduction to the subject at hand, which is a preliminary analysis of the Crimson's chances in Ivy League competition. It is fitting, though, because basketball poses predictional difficulties that are unique. Few college sports have so long a schedule, with the Varsity's 25 games a fairly typical example. To maintain an all-winning pace without once falling prey to the inevitable bad night, when nobody on the squad seems to be able to locate the basket without guided projectiles, is exceedingly unlikely of any quintet...
...secret of the Page-Glasser method is the speed of transfusion. Intravenous transfusion, which restores blood to the arteries by the roundabout course of veins and lungs, is necessarily slow. But by pumping blood rapidly into the main thigh artery, Page & Glasser completed a massive transfusion in one minute...
Last week Moscow's Izvestia lifted the recent blackout on Dr. Kapitza, said, that he had helped equip a great new laboratory on Mt. Alagoz, a remote eminence in remote Soviet Armenia. Kapitza's announced activity: research in stratospheric cosmic rays, a roundabout approach to the harnessing of atomic energy. U.S. scientists, pondering the sparse accounts from Moscow, were willing to swear that there was nothing roundabout in Dr. Kapitza's other atomic doings...
...Long Trail. For General Eichelberger and his Eighth Army, Tokyo was the end of one of the bitterest, hardest fought trails of the Pacific War. For the General it began three years and 4,000 roundabout miles away, in the blood and mud of a wretched copra settlement called Buna on the north coast of New Guinea...