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...office in an attitude of extreme weakness and helplessness and with the most pitiful facial expression that can be imagined. When questioned as to her complaint, she stated whiningly: 'I have an auriculo-valvular disease,' a 'diagnosis' which, in conjunction with the attending parental apprehensions, had made a chronic invalid of the child...
...Industries with chronic overproduction or a vast number of small-units will miss code discipline the most. The ugly problem of wage & hour differentials between the North and South was again to the fore in textiles and coal-complicated as always by excess capacity. Cement and fertilizer makers were nervous about prices. Copper men hoped to continue their curtailment program on a voluntary basis. In the liquor industry with its six codes scrapped price-cutting came early and easily...
Latest-born adult male of their line is that chronic wanderer and ne'er-do-well Lord Edward Montagu, 29. godson of King Edward VII, who last made news in February when, after several false starts, he abandoned his hot-dog stand at Maidenhead and enlisted in France's Foreign Legion, only to be ousted promptly as physically unfit. Last week in London's Old Bailey his profligate father William Angus Drogo ("Kim"; Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, beefy, ruddy, 58-year-old ex-husband of a U. S. heiress,* was sentenced to nine months in jail...
...large dimensions who felt the urge to take a bath after two weeks of truly Arabic abstention from the use of water. This gentleman had been archeologizing with a Harvard expedition at Mt. Sinai, where a Greek Catholic monastery boasts a magnificent library of manuscripts, but suffers a chronic shortage of water for which it is equally noted...
Arthritis. Dr. Ralph Pemberton of Philadelphia gave this advice both to those who suffer from atrophic arthritis (affliction of youngish people) and hypertrophic arthritis (affliction of old people): "About 80% of persons suffering from chronic arthritis should be greatly relieved and, if the bony changes have not gone too far, actual cure is often possible [by general therapy]. There is no short cut to this goal, and the patient must be able to supply the necessary pertinacity, patience and cooperation, especially in long standing cases, if he is to emerge on a new plane of health...