Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near success of West Side Story certainly derives from its dancing. If there are special reasons for this-the brilliance of the choreographer, Jerome Robbins, and the choreographic rightness of the material-the point is still worth pondering. For despite much talk about integration and balance in serious musicals, musical drama-unlike musical satire or comedy -must have a master pulse. Hence the one alternative to what must virtually be opera is what will roughly be ballet...
Dangerous penicillin reactions, in patients with a special sensitivity to the drug, can range from fever, itching and swollen joints to sudden death from anaphylactic shock, an extreme allergic reaction.* Previous tests for penicillin sensitivity have been too slow and cumbersome for everyday use, but a new test is now available that quickly screens out potentially fatal cases...
Beating the Yankees would give Spahn, 36, a special pleasure. For beating the New Yorkers would be beating Casey Stengel-the same Casey Stengel who was managing the Boston Braves 15 years ago and was scornfully unimpressed by Spahn's talents. Now the veteran pitcher has a great deal more to show his former manager. He still has his old speedball when he needs it, but he backs it up with a variety of curves and a brand-new screwball that he calls a sinker. More important, he is still improving the impressive control that made him the first...
Live coverage of the story's climax topped a week of news in which television scored heavily and figured intimately. President Eisenhower's special telecast on the evening of the paratrooper's flight into Little Rock carried his words to an audience that approached 100 million...
...News Director Bill McAndrew learned this, he telephoned Day and said hopefully: "This is bigger than both of us." Day agreed, and arranged to share CBS pickups with NBC. The CBS gesture proved to be bread cast on the waters. At the last moment before the special telecasts were to start, CBS's telephone line to its Little Rock mobile unit went dead. For the next few hours, to get advance information and send instructions, Day relayed everything through NBC's McAndrew, who was connected with his own mobile unit less than half a block away from...