Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guardedly optimistic, the U.S. Public Health Service considers malaria licked as a public health menace, but it is still "a sleeping giant." Says PHS's Dr. Robert M. Coatney: "We shouldn't do away with our police force. As soon as we relax, it will come back...
...were nearly 108,000 Australians on hand to watch, and most of the commonwealth's other 7,000,000-odd stopped everything-even streetcars-while they listened by radio. At the start, a lightly regarded speedster named Bruin tripped to the front in the muddy going. Bruin was still leading in the homestretch when three other horses charged up from behind...
During the early years he developed the opening announcement that is still his trademark. "Our biggest problem was what to say when we first went on the air," Brokenshire recalls. "I finally decided on 'How do you do, ladies and gentlemen.' Pretty soon I found that other announcers were copying me. So I added a second 'How do you do' and really underlined...
...Down. Brokenshire reached the top of his trade with such other pioneers as Milton Cross and Ted Husing (both still in radio), Harry von Zell (now in movies and radio on the West Coast) and the late Graham McNamee. By 1930 he had also hit the bottom, and was trying the first of many comebacks. It failed when, after a couple of years, Chesterfield fired him for unreliability...
...London debut at 14 as one of the 32 snowflakes in The Nutcracker, more experienced Sadler's Wellsians laughed at the serious little girl who spent half an hour in the wings, warming up for a five-minute role. But Margot was a perfectionist, then as now: she still rehearses the entire third act duet with Partner Helpmann just before each performance of Sleeping Beauty...