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Perfidy and avarice have been the two dominating forces ever since Hernando Cortes beached his boat at Veracruz in 1519, planted his cross in the sand and pronounced his classic demand of the natives: "Gold! For we suffer of a disease in the heart that only gold can cure...
Electric heat. Most spectacular development in electric heat is the artificial-fever machine, introduced in 1931 by Willis Rodney Whitney, vice president of General Electric. Electrically heated cabinets, resembling huge coffins, can raise human temperatures up to 107.5 degrees. Several ten-hour sessions in a hot box will cure gonorrhea, relieve types of arthritis and asthma. Since the treatment is something like a short trek across the Sahara without water, few patients willingly endure...
...Hugh Elles, Britain's civil defense chief, exhorted his countrymen: "As sure as God made little apples, we are going to get a lot more bombing. . . . It's the noise that frightens. . . . Don't be frightened. Be angry. It's a good cure." And Alfred Duff Cooper, the propaganda chief, quoted on the radio 42 lines of Poet Thomas Babington Macaulay's Armada, to remind the British how, with bonfires instead of blackout, they reacted to invasion once before...
...latest book (Science and Everyday Life) British Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, now editor of London's Daily Worker, told how to cure gastritis: "I had it for about 15 years until I read Lenin and other writers, who showed me what was wrong with our society. . . . Since then I have needed no magnesia...
...Eberly, singing with Jimmy Dorsey, in suffering from Laryngitia. Does he call in a doctor? No-he writes Bing Croshy, who in supposed to have a cure-ail honey and orange juice confection... Good stuff by Lionel Hampdon, slapping at those who claim all musicians are dope hounds... Also by Coleman Hawkins for taking his band out of a New York spot rather than play music he considered unsuited to his band...