Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the pilots could listen to their motors all they liked. There was no sound to break the stillness of the clear New Zealand air but the occasional backfire of a twin-engined bomber, the clap of autumn thunder or the scream of a siren. Jimmy Duncan, 59, had retired. There was no truth whatever, he roared in parting, in the story that he had been offered a job as a one-man public-address system. "Perhaps," said Jimmy, reflectively, "I'll raise cabbages...
...stunt, may broadcast the mating song of the female mosquito. If Dr. Morton C. Kahn of Cornell University Medical College had his way, each tuned-in radio would be equipped for the occasion with an electric grill to snuff out the lives of male mosquitoes attracted by the siren call. Dr. Kahn's experiment worked successfully in Cuba's malarial swamps (TIME, Oct. 11, 1948), but at that time the electrified nets surrounding the loudspeakers were charged with dangerous voltage. Says Dr. Kahn: "Our problem now is to devise an instrument which will kill the mosquito but spare...
...Mary Martin took New York by storm one night when she sang a song called My Heart Belongs to Daddy. In 1930 Ethel Merman stood in front of the footlights in Manhattan's Alvin Theater, bellowed Gershwin's I Got Rhythm in a voice like a fire siren, and blew the audience right out of its seats. Before her, a gawky torch singer named Fanny Brice and a twinkle-toed dancer named Marilyn Miller had enchanted a million-odd playgoers of the '20s. Last week, the new star that glittered over Broadway was novel enough and brilliant...