Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of his baseball patients are pitchers. To keep pace with improved batting techniques, pitchers throw an assortment of forkballs, knuckle balls, screwballs and sliders. "Try it yourself and feel the strain on your elbow," says Dr. Hyland. His commonest operation-removing calcium deposits from elbows-made new men of Pitchers Howie Pollet and Red Munger. The list of patients who have consulted him would make an impressive line-up for an All-Star game. Among them: Ty Cobb (one of his steadiest customers), Frank Frisch, Rogers Hornsby, Joe Cronin, Mel Ott, Bobby Doerr...
...picture of New York (in which all too many New Yorkers could recognize themselves): "The lonely heart of man cannot come home there. It [New York] is filled with people who, after three quick drinks, begin to dream of somewhere else ... [It is] the expression perhaps of some titanic strain in the soul of modern man, making him feel uneasy when he remembers the gods...
...between the aorta and the main artery to the lungs failed to close some time after birth. The open by-pass is vital to the fetus (fetal blood does not get oxygen from the lungs before birth), but it is harmful in later life because it puts an extra strain on the heart...
...singers were competent, but Adele Addison as Zaida, the gypsy, was by far the finest. Her voice was wonderfully smooth and clear; she reached even the highest notes without a touch of strain. Only when she was singing was Goldovsky's English translation completely intelligible...
Jazz is the feature at the Savoy, which offers Bob Wilber this week, for those who want to sit at little tables and strain their careerism. Tops in the out-on-the-highway-field are the Totem Pole and the Meadows...