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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singing Octavian, the Marschallin's unripe lover, was not 27-year-old Contralto Bible's first operatic excursion in trousers: last year, she made the same kind of hit in her hurried debut as Cherubino in the City Center's fine production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. But she is beginning to hope it may be her last. She has sung the role of Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and Mercedes in Carmen, but feels that she still has to prove that she can also sing in skirts...
...Frances first started singing in the village church choir. After high school, and some singing lessons in nearby Watertown, she auditioned at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, won a fellowship, graduated with the highest singing rating in her class. When she sang in audition for Laszlo Halasz last year, he broke his usual routine of saying just "Thank you" to hopeful auditioners, and signed her on the spot...
Before the year is out, almost every man, woman & child in the U.S. will have had at least one cold. The cost (in doctors' fees, drugs and lost wages) will top $1 billion. In a progress report on man's fight against the common cold, the current Journal of the American Medical Association glumly reports: no progress...
...Swiss-born wife Charlotte (who is also his laboratory assistant) served as a human guinea pig. When they found the spot, after hours of probing her neck with the electrode, her diaphragm contracted forcefully and she took a gusset-popping deep breath. Dr. Sarnoff had proved his device. Last year, he and his team of coworkers* called in a manufacturer to make technical improvements in the machine and turn out a pilot model. As now perfected, it is no bigger than a portable radio, can be plugged into ordinary house current...
...first human patients treated with the electrophrenic respirator was nine-year-old Bruce Plater, of Ottawa, Ont., who developed bulbar polio while on vacation in New England. In July, at Children's Hospital in Boston, Bruce's breathing was electrically controlled for six days before the disease receded. Six machines are now ready for use. By New Year's they will be generally available, at about $275 each...