Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authority predicts that one out of four Americans will, will be only about .005 per cent. In Asia the highest incidence of deaths was reported in the extreme age groups--young children and old people. In America deaths are expected to range between two and twenty thousand, and only one in a hundred cases will require hospitalization...
...chords is an extension of that early cool style, and she is playing it better than ever. Says Marian McPartland, a first-rate jazz pianist in her own right, who for two weeks shared the bill with Mary Lou: "Just playing with her, my own playing has improved a thousand percent!" All the selections Mary Lou plays at The Composer are her own arrangements, including such standards as Somebody Loves Me (with strong, marching chords and racing right hand) and a limber, longing I'm in the Mood for Love. She plays them all with deadpan face until...
...turn down, an offer from a big Eastern school to become a teacher-on the offer's own merits, not because the alternative would embarrass his father or the Army. He is determined to make the Army his career. Says he: "I'm an infantry officer one thousand percent...
...conditions occurred together at least 34 times in children four years old and younger, far oftener than the number (12.3) expected from chance alone. Likelihood that the cases occurred by chance in a four-year span, say the statisticians. is less than one in a thousand. If existence of a link between the two presumably incurable conditions is proved, important clues to their causes and treatment may be found...
...Thousand Faces (Universal-International) is the glittering trademark that Hollywood gave Lon Chaney in his day. He was also ballyhooed as a "mystery man," and the ballyhoo for once told the truth; when Actor Chaney died in 1930. the film colony mourned an enigma. Reticent and secretive, Chaney, son of two deaf-mutes, shrouded his personality, veiled his past as adroitly as he camouflaged his own features under masterful disguises (he was the Encyclopaedia Britannica's expert on movie makeup). Chaney enjoyed the respect of his own associates in the film industry, but he avoided both publicity and public...