Word: messner
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This tale is typical of the dozens told with gusto in Bellevue (Julian Messner; $2.50), published this week by Mrs. Lorraine Maynard, a pretty, risible free-lance writer. She wrote it in collaboration with Dr. Laurence Miscall, associate visiting surgeon at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, who is especially interested in chest surgery, diabetes, frostbite, gastrointestinal tumors, and human nature. Dr. Miscall once operated on Mrs. Maynard's husband. Thereafter she did volunteer work at Bellevue, got the idea for her book...
...records had begun to muscle in on the 35? juke-box trade, where Decca had been making hay. By last week U. S. Records (Royale and Varsity) had ended its first six months with an output of 1,500,000. Its biggest hit to date, Johnny Messner's suggestive She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor, had sold more than 150,000 copies...