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...Yorkers, still discussing Edna Ferber's taunt that their city was "the dirtiest in the world" (TIME, May 4), got some new criticism to chew on last week...
...perfectly muscled body was only 5 ft. 6 in. high, his visage was stern, beaked and remorseless, his eyes of a peculiar hazel which became somberly multicolored in moments of passion. His teeth were none too good-per haps because he believed that the cure for toothache was to chew hard on a piece of mahogany ("massage," he called it). He always slept soundly; even when many anxieties were on his mind, his snores resounded "like coal going down a chute." Though his joints cracked like muskets when he did his one-legged heave-ups, he was determined to outlive...
...Great Language Problem has popped up on the docket of every Faculty meeting in the last few months, only to be sidetracked by more urgent business. When it finds time, the Faculty should chew the problem over thoroughly, and then make some broad changes. For there is a general dissatisfaction with the content and instruction of the College's basic and intermediary language courses...
...from the Ozarks and onto the airwaves has come the greatest flock of hillbilly and western stars ever assembled. Its the "Hayloft Jamboree of '53 on WCOP," as the announcer joyously introduces it. For a full hour, the characters chew over drawls, and flawlessly read down-to-earth humor from down-and-out scripts...
...knocked out. Caring for him month after month at Shreveport Veterans Hospital was a forbidding task. Eventually, the doctors made an opening in the patient's abdominal wall and stomach for direct feeding. (This freed the patient of nose tubes, and if he ever recovered the power to chew and swallow food, his stomach and belly could be closed up again.) Then he was flown to New York City for stomach studies...