Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upper gold tooth shines like a phosphorous eye when she opens her mouth to sing. The scimitar eyes may close, the slender hands seem to carve the phrases out of the choky nightclub air. And the voice, sweet and strong above the rhythm section, curls around the lyrics like a husky caress. The voice belongs to Negro Singer Ernestine Anderson, at 29 perhaps the best-kept jazz secret in the land...
...stars do well indeed in the final play, Ways and Means, one of the best of the set. A bedroom comedy, complete with burglar, about a pair of upper-class house guests, out of funds, whose hostess wants to get rid of them, it is consistently funny. But why do they omit the final line? Without it, the end falls flat...
Nasser was born, an assistant postmaster's son, of Egyptian-Arab land-tilling stock in the Upper Nile Valley in 1918, the year the exhausted European colonial powers won a great war but began to lose their world supremacy. Then...
...graft treason, his love affair with 14-year-old Nelly Rivas was either dropped Or promoted to a higher but less sensitive job. The nominations sent anti-Peronistas riot through the Palace of Justice. They rained jeers and firecrackers down from the galleries, exploded a bomb in an upper-story closet, shattering the walls and cracking windows. Respected Chief Justice Alfredo Orgaz of the Supreme Court joined 27 other judges in resigning in protest at Frondizi's "impoverished and dismembered juridical administration...
...known to relieve a condition like his. But when he was three, Dr. Glenn's team at Yale School of Medicine began experimental operations with a little black and white mongrel. Of the two great veins carrying blood back to the heart, they tied off the upper one and diverted its flow directly into the pulmonary artery leading to the right lung-thus bypassing the right side of the heart. The dog got along fine. When Kent Murray, now seven, entered the hospital last February, Dr. Glenn was ready to try the technique on a human patient...