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...three years Chemist David Climenko of Alba Pharmaceutical Co. has been checking Demerol's effect on animals. Last week in Boston, before the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, he reported satisfactory results. At the same time Dr. Robert C. Batterman of New York University told of using Demerol on 800 human patients. It quickly relieved postoperative pain, cut down the agony of arthritis and other diseases. Neither Chemist Climenko's animals nor Dr. Batterman's men & women developed any craving for the drug...
Married. Wilma Baard, 23, blonde model and bargemaster's daughter who achieved fame two years ago when 14 Manhattan café cowboys sponsored her "debut" in protest at the Brenda Frazier hoopla; and Count Nava del Tajo, 25, distant relative of the Duke of Alba; in Manhattan...
...self-assured, Goya rode the crest of this cloacal flood. A ram-headed man of enormous appetites, he ate himself to the verge of apoplexy, begot 20 legitimate children (only one survived the plague-ridden rigors of Spanish life), became the lover of the beautiful and powerful Duchess of Alba, a favorite of the harlot Queen, the most sought-after society portraitist of his time...
...week, there were rumors that the Chief of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, himself, was on the way. But Premier Antonescu had already made a last, desperate effort to unite his country behind a common cause. In the snow-swept town of Alba Iulia, in what was left of Rumanian Transylvania, he brought stirring news to 100,000 cheering Guardists, soldiers and civilians. "I went to Berlin and Rome for Transylvanians," said Premier Antonescu, then quoted the Führer's answer: "On your shoulders rests the duty to repair and correct...
...lovelier, May's tulips more glorious, than in Holland last week. But they could not miss a note of grimness either. Determined Protestants, the Dutch taught all Europe 350 years ago that foreign domination could be resisted and overthrown. For them a Seyss-Inquart is another Duke of Alba...