Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week Witness Peter Planiseck testified that he once saw Ilse order a prisoner to strip so she could see his tattoos; then she wrote down the prisoner's number. That night he was executed...
...John's males take to the new idea? At a special meeting of the Student Polity (St. John's for student council), Moderator (president) Stewart Washburn spoke up: "We accept women. There is nothing wrong with women as such. But they are going to necessitate a great number of annoying practical adjustments." St. John's was making a beginning at such adjustments by assigning one of its four dormitories for the use of the expected newcomers...
...Morbidity and mortality are specialized doctors' words to describe the ravages of disease. Morbidity means the number of sick, mortality the number of dead. For years doctors in the U.S. and Britain have been puzzling over a paradox in the morbidity and mortality rates of tuberculosis: while TB mortality has declined fairly steadily, morbidity has been rising. One possible explanation: doctors have become sharper-eyed in detecting new cases...
...Bing and Tudor had reversed a 31-year Met precedent. In 1919, principally because Faust seemed entirely long enough (three hours) without it, the Met had dropped the 17-minute Walpurgis Night bacchanale that opens the fourth act. Most European opera companies (Paris is one exception) also ignore the number. But to Manager Bing, the ballet in which Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and other famous beauties appear at the summons of Mephistopheles to tempt Faust seemed an integral part of the opera...
...backbone of any really sophisticated revue is the skits and those in Bless You All again & again fall flat. For one thing, their targets are usually as obvious as their aim is erratic. Perhaps the liveliest number is the most elaborate: a take-off of a 1960 presidential campaign conducted entirely by television. The show overworks Comic Jules Munshin, who is pleasant to have around now & then, and overtaxes Comedienne Mary McCarty, who can perform-but not miracles...