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...mammography techniques have improved considerably since the H.I.P. study began 12½ years ago and that the radiation doses now used have been reduced to about a third of their old level. More important, they said that about two-thirds of the cases detected were in an early, curable stage-and only about half these cancers could have been detected without X rays. Said Dr. Philip Strax, director of the New York detection center: "The real risk is in not doing mammography." Added Dr. Barbara Ward of Boise, Idaho: "These reports are doing more damage than good by scaring women...
Midsummer Night's Dream proved to be first-rate spectacle and only intermittently good dance. The sets, by Designer David Hays, were superb-particularly his stylized forest of plate-sized green leaves, spread in a gigantic canopy across the stage-and the costumes by Karinska were as opulent as any the City Ballet has ever displayed (the corps de ballet's wispy costumes cost $400 apiece; Oberon's gold lame tunic, $1,200). With a cast of nearly 100, most of the emphasis was inevitably on swirling group movements and splashy stage effects: clouds of smoke pouring...
...muscle near the sacroiliac. How the hell am I gonna get over to that side of the stage?" Last week Gossipist Winchell, an oldtime hoofer before he cast himself in the role of a newspaperman, painfully returned for $35,000 a week to his first love-himself on a stage-and it was rough...
...sopranos; the name role has been tackled by the world's top prima donnas from Giuditta Pasta (who created it) to Jenny Lind, Lilli Lehmann and Rosa Ponselle. Norma is on stage-and singing-for almost two hours, or long enough to satisfy the heartiest spotlight appetite. She ranges the emotional gamut from mother love to infanticide. Best of all, the part is almost impossible to sing, and few of today's voices can both spin the intricate tracery of its high coloratura and belt out the chesty low tones...
...still suffering. . . . I am not content and I am scraping off, still scraping off. . . . I am like children in school. . . . I am still in the blotting stage-and I'm forty...