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...Insurance Works. Here is a specific example of how the combined Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans work. Last October, the wife of a Bronx freight handler, whose income is $2,400 a year, came down with acute appendicitis. The illness marked the first time that the family had had occasion to use its hospital insurance (held since 1943), now combined with a Blue Shield surgical plan, for premiums totaling $64.32 a year. The wife had an appendectomy and, because of complications, stayed in the hospital 24 days. For the first 21 days, Blue Cross allowed $6 a day; beyond...
...Would Benefit? Under the Ewing plan, the Bronx freight handler's premiums would be $72 a year at first, rising to $96 after the plan is widened to cover dentistry, eye care and chronic illnesses. But the freight handler would pay only half ($36 to $48) in direct payroll taxes; his employer would pay the rest...
Almost as big a surprise was 27-year-old Bronx-born opera-saver Regina Resnik (TIME, Aug. 25, 1947), whose dramatically convincing and vocally sumptuous Sieglinde was more than a match for 59-year-old veteran Tenor Lauritz Melchior's Siegmund...
After studying for three years at a Bronx High School and a prep school in Rome, Italy, he demonstrated by sweeping the 30-hour entrance examinations that he already had the equivalent of a college education. He intends to major in mathematics...
...Horowitz Novelty Co. which dealt in Kewpie dolls, razor blades and punchboards. It went bankrupt, left its creditors holding the sack, was reborn as the Dainties Products Co.-and boomed. He put his money into real estate, built apartments and five-story walkups in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx, and with his investments hit another jackpot...