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...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...
Patterned after "Alcoholics Anonymous," the Yale group has condemned smoking an "subversive,' 'and seeks to cure those, like themselves, who desire to be rid of the urge to smoke...
...Remedy. The cure for all this, says Barzun, is self-denial. "As many of us as possible must work out of our system, first, all the vogue words that almost always mean nothing but temporary vacancy of mind-such words as 'basic;5 'major,' 'over-all,' 'personal,' 'values,' 'exciting' (everything from a new handbag to a new baby) ; then . . . all the tribal adornments which, being cast off, may disclose the plain man we would like to be: no frames of reference, field theories, or apperception protocols; no texture, prior...
After word got out last week that Los Angeles Daily News Publisher Robert Smith had signed a contract to sell the paper for $1,525,000 (TIME, Nov. 16), Smith changed his mind. "There is nothing wrong with the Daily News," said he, "that more circulation would not cure." Then he announced that the sale of the paper was called off because the buyer, Publisher Sheldon F. Sackett of the Coos Bay (Ore.) Times, had "failed to put up financial and collateral requirements as specified...
While faculty reaction, for the most part, has been slow and reticent, the Yale Daily News quickly analyzed the report editorially. "Plan A is excellent," the News said. "It is imaginative and stimulating enough to cure most of Yale's ills as enumerated in the report. And yet it is not too demanding for the average student or the less than superhuman teacher. However the authors of the President's report envision Plan A as a mere step on the way to Plan...