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...York runs a special school for young narcotic addicts on the East River's North Brother Island, and diligently instructs them in academic subjects while they take the cure. It holds special classes for 93 blind children, 384 deaf children, 3,613 youngsters with heart trouble and other enervating ailments. 7,391 children of deeply retarded mental development. It runs a whole series of schools for young delinquents...
Weak sister of the arts at Harvard for many years, local theatre last week began a cure which its doctors hope will bring it back to health. Still very much in the experimental stage, the Acting Laboratory is hardly a wonder drug, but it can be a tremendous stimulant to dramatic activity in the College...
...producers can persuade Rathbone to study his part and play Holmes rather than a House Dick, they can cure the major ill of the play. To make Sherlock Holmes effective, however, they must dispense with the flashbacks, the muddled staging, and the exaggerations of acting in the minor roles. In the meantime, Ouida must straighten out the story line, which now leaves justice inexplicably triumphant in the last act. Certainly the present state of Sherlock Holmes, with the sole assets of Steward Chaney's sets and the charming, if superfluous Mme. Novotna, will not satisfy Doyle addicts, who have waited...
There is thus, to begin with, the sense of a suave M.C. who is continually introducing what turns out to be himself. The self is sometimes a zany who chatters away-in a manner that eludes cold print -about one relative who invented a cure for which there is no disease, and about another who crossed the Idaho potato with a sponge-the result hardly tastes very good, but "it can hold an awful lot of gravy." The self is oftener an accomplished pianist who mutters as he plays and often denounces what he is playing, who performs...
...prospects of a cure for cancer, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads. director of Manhattan's famed Memorial Center (TIME, June 27, 1949), told a congressional hearing: "We can look forward to something like a penicillin for some cancers, and I hope within the next decade...