Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other encounter, a close call, had spared Runyon's life but struck him dumb. His larynx had been removed, to check a throat cancer. Since then, his gold pencil, by swift jottings in a loose-leaf notebook, had done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time...
Voice Change. In Knoxville, doctors X-rayed four-year-old Phyllis Dean's throat, spotted the nickel she had swallowed, operated, pulled...
Baited Breath. In Joplin, Mo., Robert Kelley, after an eight years' sore throat, finally had it Xrayed, learned that he had a 3½-inch fishhook stuck...
...York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary
of Commerce.
...grip which crow-beaked Harry Bridges had fastened on Hawaii (TIME, Nov. 4) was loosened last week. His longshoremen's union called off a strike which for eleven weeks had gripped Hawaii's economy by the throat...