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...Pulpit is the place where irritating mannerisms dog the most conscientious. Some of the commonest: "Leaning on the pulpit . . . using one's handkerchief like a mop . . . dropping one's voice to a whisper for effect . . . crouching, with knees bent, as if to make a spring; 'making faces...
...commonest form of heart attack is a coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in an artery supplying the heart muscle checks the blood flow and starves the muscle. To overcome this handicap, the heart must labor excessively; like a car on a steep grade in high gear, it pings alarmingly and may stall. A noted Canadian psychiatrist suggested last week that the basic cause of the trouble may be found, not where doctors have been looking, in the patient's physical exertions or his arteries, but in his emotional problems...
...Funerals. In merriment-minded Tehuantepec, any pretext for a party goes; the commonest is a wedding. By custom, after the newlyweds retire, celebrators gather outside the bridal chamber, drinking and shouting broad sallies at the groom. Later, when he comes out to greet the crowd, firecrackers explode and an all-night fiesta starts. Scarcely less gay are wakes and funerals (where a favored dirge is the tune of Yes, We Have No Bananas). There are 21 scheduled community fiestas a year in the town...
...convened in Manhattan last week busied themselves with their patients' most persistent, everyday complaints. These ranged from stomach troubles to surgeons' fees. But none drew more attention, from general practitioners and specialists alike, than affairs of the heart and arteries, whose diseases are far & away the commonest cause of death in the U.S. today. By coincidence, the A.M.A. also voted its highest award this year to a famed heart surgeon (see below...
...composer helps him understand the problems of performing-and the need for first-rate performances. But, in the course of covering five events a week, he has his headaches. One is the overloaded program (morning-paper critics like to get back to their office typewriters early). Another, and the commonest source of distress to a sympathetic critic: the struggling but limited performer who has laid out a hard-earned $1,000-$1,500 for a Manhattan recital, hoping for rave reviews which will lead to contracts and a steady career. An Hour Till Midnight. Critic Berger has about an hour...