Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ages of Immunity. The beauty operator's case was typical of 21 which the disease detectives studied in detail. Then they did some medical gumshoe work, sent interviewers to every house in town, turned up scores of additional cases. Some victims also had other symptoms, such as terrifying dreams, difficulty in swallowing, and a feverish feeling not justified by a slight rise in temperature. Nearly always there was a letup after a few weeks, then a series of relapses throughout the five-month period of study. Women were victims twice as commonly as men, and their cases were more...
...career in civil engineering before he turned to racing, in which he had only middling success. He was standing under the shower one day singing O Sole Mio when the cyclist in the stall next to him told him that he had a voice. Pinza prepped with a home-town voice teacher, was accepted by the conservatory at Bologna, made a whistle-stop debut with a small opera company, and departed for World...
...reread Gogol's The Inspector General. Egk decided it was just the kind of thing he needed. He hacked down Gogol's sprawling list of characters to a manageable 13, set to work composing a score to match the author's farcical tale of a provincial town paralyzed by the news that a civil-service inspector is on the way to investigate its lace-curtain vices. The Schwetzingen Festival (near Heidelberg) gave Composer Egk a handsome, cartoon-style production (by noted Stage Director Gunther Rennert), with the opera's townspeople outlandishly garbed in a mid-19th...
Schoolgirl Heinkel has been performing before audiences since she was three. In home-town St. Louis, where her father sells plumbing fixtures, a TV station manager spotted her playing Shirley Temple in a Christmas pageant, put her on a local kiddie show. She won modeling jobs, as well as roles in 13 St. Louis Municipal Opera productions. Chicago producers spotted her on a local TV show, were so impressed that they gave CBS brass in Manhattan a look at her over a closed-circuit broadcast. CBS whipped up a format, wooed Susan to Chicago's WBBM...
Typically, in the industrial city of Nowo Huta, originally planned as a model Socialist town without a house of worship, the government has now permitted a church to be begun. Everywhere the monotony of dusty village life is once again relieved by bright processions and flower-banked shrines on religious holidays. "It's good for the heart as well as the soul," said a young peasant woman near Lowicz last week, winding a chain of paper roses around a huge roadside cross. A fortnight ago, at the annual renewal of national vows to the Madonna of Czestochowa...