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Without Pay. Worth insisted that he had done the whole job himself, without pay and without the knowledge of the Navy's top brass. But he had gotten some help from Planemaker Glenn Martin and "a great deal of information" from Commander Thomas D. Davies, who piloted the Navy's Truculent Turtle in its record-breaking flight from Australia to Ohio...
Besides, said Acheson, after he had gotten Harry Truman's backing for the project, the mill could not possibly be delivered before another year; by that time the U.S. would have a better idea just how lasting was Tito's falling out with the Kremlin. On that basis, Johnson reluctantly agreed...
Some American comment was indeed impolite and some of it was unfair; a great deal more was sound and factual, and it could have given British readers a close view of their plight, which they appeared never to have gotten so clearly from their own press or their government. Britons who, when they got the U.S. loan, complained that U.S. prices were too high (and would cut down the amount of goods Britain would be able to buy in the U.S.) now cried that U.S. prices were too low; British manufacturers could not compete with them. Other Laborite headlines: "Stop...
...forms of cancer which can be relieved to some extent by medication is cancer of the prostate gland, and one of the most effective relieving agents is stilbestrol, a synthetic female sex hormone. Patients have gotten as much as ten years of borrowed time by stilbestrol (either alone or in conjunction with surgery). When the treatment is successful, the malignancy is arrested both at its original site in the prostate and in the metastases (cancerous colonies in other parts of the body). Until recently, however, no case had been reported in which the cancer was known to be destroyed...
...again in a smashing new work by the same choreographer. Unlike her Lament, Choreographer Doris Humphrey's new Invention had no story and no characterization; it was pure dance, but with plenty of invention. By the time Limón & Co. (Betty Jones, Ruth Currier) had gotten through its four brief sections (a bright, gay solo, a duo, a meditative slow movement and a powerful recapitulation) they and Choreographer Humphrey had won an ovation. New works by other American Dance Festival regulars, including Sophie Maslow's fine but unfinished Festival, based on stories by Yiddish Story Writer Sholom...