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Dubois: The Seven Last Words of Christ (Boston Chorale, organ and soloists conducted by Willis Page; Cook). A major effort by a minor 19th century composer. The disk is notable chiefly for its remarkable sound reproduction, some stirring choral singing, and the beautiful soprano voice of Margo Stagliano. Available in binaural recording...
Patients who speak Spanish but no English and cannot get used to American food posed a special problem. Now, each of them is allowed to have one bilingual member of his family stay in the home and accompany him to the hospital as interpreter, and cook Mexican-style dishes to the patient's taste...
...Violinist & the Pastry Cook. Two of the biggest are Chicago's Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co., which made the dolls for Lord & Taylor (opposite), and Manhattan's Staples-Smith Inc., which designed the Nativity scene for Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Between them, the two companies gross well over $2,000,000 a year, serve nearly 100 stores around the U.S. Silvestri specializes in composition mechanical dolls that cost up to $1,150 apiece ($18,000 for a complete set of 60) and can be dressed up to resemble a Viennese violinist or a French pastry cook...
...scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores. "The only thing I could do," said Dr. Devenis, "[was to try to extract vitamin C from] pine needles and pine cones. So I used to cook them in a big kettle, and all the prisoners' were given a glass of that concoction to drink every night. [It] was not enough to cure well-developed scurvy...
...small-town minister, McClellan worked his way through Occidental College as a cantaloupe inspector and packer, cook and college janitor, was made head janitor when he devised a way to save the college 10% on cleaning expenses. After graduation he went to work for a creamery, and a year later was made sales manager. In 1927, McClellan decided to go into business for himself; for $10,000 he bought a rundown Los Angeles paint company. His company, which now employs 150, has increased sales in all but two of the years since, this year will gross about...