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Last week, grizzled, hard-bitten hard-rock miners came down out of Colorado's Rocky Mountains to Denver to try the latest treatment for the old complaint. At the University of Colorado's School of Medicine they bellied up to a six-foot-high box fitted with nozzles at mouth level. Putting a clamp on their noses and the nozzle in their mouths, they breathed in & out through the tubes. Newcomers started at five minutes every day; veterans stood at the box from ten up to 20 minutes...
Starring Joan Bennett, as a dissolute and hard-bitten flapper, Edward G. Robinson as a weak little cashier who likes to paint pictures, and Dan Duryea, as a fip, unmoral pug, "Scarlet Street" is cynically matter-of-fact, more like a Dostoevski novel than a Hollywood bon-bon, honest to a fault...
...Bitten Fruit. Goya found extramural solace with vivacious María Teresa, Duchess of Alba, whose reputation at court was as scandalous as his own. Warned a well-meaning friend: "This particular fruit already has lots of bites in it." But Goya paid no heed. When he saw Teresa, "a tingle of delicious pain hovered at the edge of [his] eyelids." Most of Author White's lively novel is the story of this 20-year attachment...
...Shelley Mydans' admirers, none tops the hard-bitten G.I. editor of the Mid-pacifican, who wrote, on Dec. 2, 1944: "Shelley Smith Mydans, the Pacific's first gorgeous war correspondent, is here. . . . (She) cannot be summed up in a sentence, but a sentence can report that she's an able newspaperwoman who has been more places than a globetrotter, has had more adventures than a soldier of fortune, knows more about the Japs than most military commanders, and, at 29, is better to look at than 75% of the movie stars...
After six and a half hours, Dr. James E. Bell Jr. decided to improvise. He gave a shot of neostigmine-recently used to relax contracted muscles in polio and arthritis (TIME, Jan. 15) and a shot of atropine. In 15 minutes the bitten boy's abdomen began to soften, his legs relaxed a little. In an hour he was comfortable except for a slight headache...