Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lung Cancer. "A spectacular relationship." Among 32,392 men who had never smoked, only four died of microscopically proved cancer originating in the lung, but among 108,000 cigarette smokers there were 265 similarly proved cases (of 397 reported). Even men who smoked less than half a pack a day ran a risk of lung cancer 15 times as great as that of nonsmokers; between one and two packs 43 times as great; on two packs or more 64 times as great...
Around the World in 80 Days. Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000 has created a spectacular travelogue (TIME...
...broken four minutes elsewhere; Ibbotson had come to town boldly predicting he would win in 3:56. "Our appearance," said the unabashed fourth-place Briton, "ought to be a challenge to the young fellows of the States." It was. Muscular Olympian Tom Courtney ran himself into exhaustion in a spectacular 880-yd. race, beat his Melbourne teammate Arnie Sowell by 1½ seconds, set a new world's record (1:46 8) and announced that he was now ready to take a crack at the four-minute mile...
...customers have been lost to Great Neck." Broadway Producer Richard Kollmar once accused the LP record: "When you had the 78s, you had to get up and change the damned things every few minutes, so you got bored and went out.'' Other clubmen think that spectacular TV has satiated the public's appetite for shows, or that people simply do not dance any more (although dancing schools are jammed). Whatever the reason. Manhattan is down to two chorus lines (the Copacabana and the Latin Quarter, both of which float high on expense-account money); Chicago has only...
Like a somewhat expanded "Annals of Crime" in the New Yorker magazine, They Hanged My Saintly Billy explores in great detail the circumstances surrounding a spectacular criminal career. Mr. Graves has chosen the story of Dr. William Palmer, who was accused of doing in fourteen people, the majority by poison, and who was publicly hanged in 1856 after being convicted of poisoning John Parsons Cook, a fellow aficionado of horse-racing...