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Then there were pages devoted to the effects, positive and negative, of: wearing high-heeled shoes; developing the body by "exercises"; using cosmetics and 'hair dyes; taking anesthetics; removing surplus hair; removing the appendix; smoking; dieting to cure diabetes; undergoing the Steinach operation for rejuvenation...
...some matters, they all agreed that flesh predominated. And this is true of the first few scenes. But shortly after the rip snorting Charleston number, featuring the Hoffman's scrub team --we know it wasn't the 'Varsity, because in New York the left tackle had had her appendix removed--there was a subtle change...
...what aboard the Pole-crossing Norge (TIME, Aug. 2). Mr. Ellsworth was quoted directly. Hurt, angry, he flayed the Norwegian Aero Club for permitting Nobile to assume prominence upon the expedition in the first instance, and specifically, for telling Nobile, lately, that he might write more than a "technical appendix" to the official book of the trip, which Ellsworth and Amundsen are compiling. Words like this came forth: "They have handed me a rotten deal. . . . How very different when they needed money...
...Wills. It was too bad, people said, but you could not expect a champion to be always at her best. When, last week, Miss Ryan cut down Miss Wills decisively in the same tournament, 6-4, 6-1, newspapers reminded the public that Miss Wills had just lost her appendix...
...follies are over, even if he does eat flapjacks at Hollywood now and then. Tennis is his game, his life. He'll not be 'through' for many a moon." Wills-Browne. The fresh-healed threat in Helen Wills' right side-her appendix scar-softened last week and put her adulators at their ease. Her match in the final of the East Hampton invitation tournament against nut-brown Mary Browne was the first test of her condition since her operation in England, and she passed it with never a quiver. Her old bulletlike serve sang true...