Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magic in Chicago's Black Orchid nightclub, racing hysterically through his varied roles-from a harassed father scared of his own kids, to the whole cast of a jail break complete with the rataplan of a Tommy gun, produced by his elastic larynx. "As long as someone laughs," says a friend, "Johnny is on. And someone is always laughing." Johnny was "on" the night he toured Manhattan bistros with an empty hand grenade (pulling the pin, he would cry: "Everybody goes when the whistle blows"). He was "on" when he panicked a staid hotel lobby by turning...
Winters tried psychiatry a couple of years ago. "I was analyzed," he says, "and it was interesting. I went for five months. Finally, I told him I was Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. That's when he said, 'I can't put you away, but you should go away.' " Then Johnny adds solemnly: "Who's to say who's sick? If you're not sick, you're a bore...
...from foreseeing a further increase in leukemia from anything (meaning nuclear power) that has developed in the last 15 years, Epidemiologists Alexander G. Gilliam and William A. Walter declare in Public Health Reports: present trends "provide no support whatsoever" for such a pessimistic view. On the contrary, they say, the data suggest that exposure to whatever causes operate to produce leukemia (which nobody knows) has leveled off or actually decreased...
...object hitherto generally considered harmless: the wristwatch. Drs. Grafton D. Chase and Arthur Osol of Philadelphia's College of Pharmacy and Science tested 20 watches with luminous dials, found that some put out five to ten milliroentgens an hour one inch from their shining little faces. This, they say in Science, is several times greater than the natural background radiation from cosmic rays and the earth's crust, more than 100 times that received from bomb-test fallout to date...
...What? As a Harley Street admirer put it: "In these days of family planning, female emancipation, and ideas of equality in sexual pleasure, it is easy to see Dr. Stopes and say, 'So what?' We have to place her in her own age, when such things were quite beyond the pale-and that was not so long ago." The times had passed her by, but it was because she had done so much to shape them...