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...least one aspect of its replacement attempts, the Band met with success yesterday. According to Aronson, the Slingerland Company of Evansville, Indiana, has assured the Band that it can locate a big enough cowhide, cure it for the necessary three months, and deliver a new drum, even bigger than the old, by the start of next football season--if it can be paid...
Present antihistamine drugs have only a temporary effect against the cell-weakening histamine. Eyring and Dougherty's hope for a cure: a "ground substance" (gelatinous matter surrounding blood capillaries and body cells) that the body uses to block less severe histamine assaults. A stronger, man-made drug like it, they hope, may stop the chain reaction, localize cell damage and bring stress-burdened modern man longer life...
Even the rival New York Times and Daily News were having their troubles over the Trib's contest. Both papers' information services and morgues have been deluged with thinly veiled queries that would help solve Tangle Towns clues. The Public Library finally found a hangover cure. It put its own researchers to work figuring out the daily Tangle Towns answers, and gave them to anyone who asked for them...
...Stockton, Calif, last week, she was the fourth of 14 siblings to be carried off by a mysterious, muscle-wasting disease. Vivian was 15 when she was stricken with what doctors believed to be muscular dystropny-a progressive wasting away of muscle power for which neither cause nor cure is known. She had gradually become disabled, spent her last two months in San Joaquin General Hospital. When Vivian the first ominous stiffening in her ankles, followed by weakness and loss of balance, one sister had already died. She lived to see another sister and a brother die of complaints suggesting...
When Gian-Carlo Menotti was a child, at home near Milan, he was crippled in one leg. A devout nurse took him to a shrine of the Madonna, and shortly afterwards he was cured. He still believes that his cure could have been miraculous. But at the same time, Composer Menotti also believes that he does not believe: he admits to skepticism and has left the Roman Catholic Church. This contradiction has turned up in Menotti operas before (e.g., The Medium), in the shape of dramatic conflicts between some form of faith and reason. The theme is rousingly treated...