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Back in 1867 the famous preacher Henry Ward Beecher wrote a novel, his only one, Norwood; or Village Life in New England, which was serialized in the New York Ledger, and for which he received the then fabulous sum of $25,000. One of the minor characters was a mischievous boy from Hardscrabble, the poor down-at-the-heels farming suburb of Norwood...
...first number, published in 1857, had offered its handful of readers Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Greenleaf Whittier...
...sort. Ethel Barry more still hard at work, may or may not have been 100% pleased by the tribute Manhattan paid her in a parade of floats honoring great women. Ethel found herself in the company of Susan B. Anthony, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...Playwright Loos's Cinderellative, Actress Hayes is on an acting spree. The portrayer of such moral monuments as Queen Victoria and Harriet Beecher Stowe lets fly with a tipsy tango, bawls through the mike a specially written Rodgers & Hammerstein ditty, cuts up under a table, does a swan dive off a bar, sees bottles light up, hears a cash register strike up a tune. Actress Hayes is hardly a born vaudevillian, but she makes what is clumsy about her also seem comical; and she romps through her new role with the gusto of a paperweight that suddenly finds itself...
...pain killers (novocaine, spinal blocks, cyclopropane, sodium pentothal, etc.), but ether is still safest and best. Enthusiastic centennial speakers noted that anesthesia has brought many boons to man besides easier human surgery: e.g., it made possible a vast amount of painless experimentation on animals. Now, said Dr. Beecher, a "second power" of anesthesia is emerging-the power of probing the human mind. "With anesthetic agents we seem to have a tool for producing and holding at will different levels of consciousness-a tool that promises to be of great help in studies of the mind and its workings...