Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...importing a Johns Hopkins man, but the New Orleans press staged an unprecedented campaign: "Matas and Matas only!" "Call for Matas." The outrage was averted, and in 33 years goateed Dr. Matas raised Tulane's banner high. He was one of the first surgeons to operate behind a screen of sheets soaked in carbolic acid in an effort to achieve sterile conditions, one of the first to use drip infusions (such as sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like...
...hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets lost on the West Side of Chicago and does not bother to go looking for himself. The script, mild enough in comparison with Nelson Algren's cruel, powerful novel (TIME, Sept...
CRIME president Cliff F. Thompson stepped out of his room, his face blue with cold, and swore a great oath at the Farmers Almanac for predicting the coldest winter of the century, James R. Ilgenfritz, president of New England Storm and Screen windows, for making it come true, and Radcliffe's Dean Lacey for removing the only available heating system...
...Analyzing television's threat to the movies, the Hollywood Reporter offered one more proof that no audience will pay to see on the screen what it can see free at home: despite a high-powered publicity campaign, said the Reporter, Liberace's Sincerely Yours has proved to be one of the year's biggest box-office flops...
...Screen Directors Playhouse (Wed. p.m., NBC). John Wayne in Rookie of the Year...