Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most listeners thought they knew the singing-the pillow-soft pianissimos, the warm and velvety power even at full voice-even though at first some did not recognize the singer. In five months, tiny (4 ft. 8½ in.), once-tubby (201 lbs.) Dorothy Maynor had lost 72 pounds by rigorous dieting, slimmed down to a more curvaceous 129. But last week, as the first guest soloist on the NBC Symphony's new U.S. Steel-sponsored Summer Concert series, the little Negro soprano proved that great singing does not necessarily come by the pound...
...they were summoned from their desks to the paneled board room of Manhattan's McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Announced Publisher Paul Montgomery: "I have a piece of bad news this morning." The news: there would not be any September issue-or any August issue, either, even though the presses were ready to roll. Without making a move to telegraph its knockout punch, McGraw-Hill had closed out the biggest, slickest and most expensive of its 34 magazines...
...Though mildly successful, WCFL was not copied by other unions until the FCC's postwar decision to open a new band for FM transmitters made the gamble seem worthwhile. Publicity-conscious unions were in the forefront of the scrambling applicants for construction permits. In the past year, the United Auto Workers have gone on the air with station WDET in Detroit, and this month will open WCUO in Cleveland. The I.L.G.W.U. beams its message to the South through Chattanooga's WVUN, and last November invaded the West Coast with Los Angeles' KFMV, "the FM Voice of Southern...
...hospitals go, Manhattan's famed Memorial Hospital is not a light-hearted place. Its corridors never echo with the happy sounds of a maternity ward. No one is there because of minor ailments or for a good rest. Most of the patients know that their chances of recovery, though somewhat better every year, are poor indeed. Visitors passing through the lobby often look stunned by grief. Memorial is a tragic place because its patients are victims of cancer...
Some types of thyroid cancer do not respond to this treatment. The cells cannot be trained to take up iodine and kill themselves. But many patients have been helped to some extent. In four of them the disease has been definitely checked, though not wiped out entirely...