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During one of those shortages of cash that seem to be chronic in the planned economy, Moscow sends Comrades Bul-janoff, Iranoff and Kopalski to Paris to sell confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful...
...Chemist William John Matheson gave several hundred thousand dollars for a study of the disease. The fund has dwindled, for the Matheson Commission takes no money for treatment. Executive secretary of the Commission is capable Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal who has investigated a remarkable Bulgarian belladonna treatment for chronic cases, long used in Europe. These tablets which Dr. Neal considers "by far the most effective method of symptomatic therapy," have improved the speech, tremors and vision of 75 patients...
...them victims of incurable cancer. Of the 17, eight felt completely relieved (several even gained weight, went back to work), seven told him their pain was greatly diminished. Only two had poor results. Other physicians, said Dr. Rutherford, are trying venom injections for relief of pain caused by chronic arthritis, heart disease, gangrene. Advantages over morphine: 1) venom lasts longer (morphine may wear off in three hours) ; 2) it is not habit-forming...
...porcelain, with crystal and with Renaissance, 19th Century French and Smigly-Rydz oils; never wears more than one medal; rides early each morning; likes to stay at home with his charming, quiet wife, who does her own cooking and thinks the wives of Messrs. Beck and Moscicki are chronic climbers...
...might not be lost to them was the Baltimore Stin's Henry Mencken, who was disillusioned long ago. Noting the widespread pain of the pinks, he opined: "The will to believe is not cured by a single sellout, nor even by a dozen on end. It is a chronic affliction, and as intractable as gout, the liquor habit, or following the horses. The American pinks have had it for a long time and they will carry it to the grave, and even let us hope, beyond...