Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After nearly three years of study, hard work, personal appearances and concert tours around the U.S., Soprano Margaret Truman figured that she was ready for her New York debut. After her half-hour Carnegie Hall concert last week, sponsored on a network hookup by the American Oil Co., she got a kiss from Opera Star Lauritz Melchior and a notice from the New York Herald Tribune's Critic Virgil Thomson who wrote: "Few artists now appearing before the public have Miss Truman's physical advantages, and almost none other has her dignity." But as for "temperament, the quality...
...death rate set an alltime low in 1948, the National Office of Vital Statistics reported last week. There were 1,444,337 deaths-i.e., 9.9 per 1,000 population, compared with 10.1 in 1947 and 10.0 (the previous low) in 1946. Markedly lower were deaths in childbirth (down 17%) and from syphilis (down 8%). But both heart disease (the heaviest killer-one-third of all deaths) and cancer slightly increased their toll...
...University of Illinois doctors reported last week that they had developed an instrument which, they hoped, would help to detect heart disease in its earliest stages. If their hope is fulfilled, countless cases of heart trouble may now be detected when they begin-in the arteries-and treated in time to slow down the disease...
...right, Steve . . . Don't put yourself on a spot for me." Manager "Red" Rolfe tried another approach-bullying him-with no more success. At their wit's end a fortnight ago, the Tigers traded their perennial problem child to the New York Yankees. Last week, in an unprecedented three-page letter to the press, Wakefield announced that he was genuinely sorry for his sins in Detroit...
More cases of infantile paralysis were reported in the U.S. during 1949 than in any previous year. Last week the total passed 43,000. As the sad statistics piled up, officials of the U.S. Public Health Service combed through mountains of reports, noting where poliomyelitis had struck most heavily, hoping that locating the outbreaks would help to explain them. The results were discouraging...