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...last resort, the company hopes−ask for his money back. Most of American's editorial features will be split up between the two magazines. Its longtime Editor Blossom, 64, becomes a Crowell-Collier vice president assigned to editorial planning, and the company will try to absorb 50 of American's 65 editorial and advertising employees...
...surgery, they got by in 84 cases with no other anesthetic, and used only a local in 103. A main advantage of the method: it induces a light "sleep state," from which the patient arouses quickly. ¶Compounds of salicylic acid, para-aminobenzoic acid, tannic acid and their derivatives absorb the sun's skin-burning rays, said the University of Chicago's Dermatologist Stephen Rothman, and they can be used in anti-sunburn lotions. Also, they permit tanning without burning. As some South Pacific veterans will attest, antimalarial drugs such as Atabrine also protect against sunburn when taken...
...countries like the U.S. and Russia, "more or less self-sufficient," the economy can absorb rising prices as long as wages rise with them, said Macmillan. But Britain is an exporting nation whose prices must compete in a world market. "We must export to live at all. Fifty million of us there are, living on a rock-and living better than almost any country in the world. The world boom will continue. Other countries will be forging ahead. But we shall have priced ourselves out of the market by our own folly. Our exporters, masters and men, will...
...soljer," Burgess would drop those unwilling or unable to absorb atom-age training. Said he: "We have no place for the half-lazy, the half-talented in today's complex military structure...
Political Career: Elected to Parliament in 1931 for a Bedfordshire seat that he has held ever since. As elegant backbencher he praised Franco, Mussolini and Hitler, joined the Friends of Franco, and overenthusiastically defended Munich ("Hitler could absorb Czechoslovakia and Britain could remain secure"). When Churchill replaced Chamberlain and obviously had little relish for Lennox-Boyd's views, he joined the coastal navy, but continued to show up in the House of Commons every time his escort vessel touched a Channel port. He caught the eye of the late Oliver Stanley, an imperialist Tory who was rethinking Britain...