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...London, the old (76 years old) Tory battler gathered with party leaders to plot the strategy they hope will send them back to the country's helm. Winnie was in fine, old-fashioned form. He told Britons that the Conservatives could not promise a quick cure for the country's ills. "The road will be hard and uphill," he said. "After a rake's progress . . . the resulting evils cannot be cured by a parliamentary vote or a stroke of the administrative...
...Beverly Baker, 9-7, 6-4. ¶Professional Golfer Betsy Rawls, 23, of Austin, Texas, the Women's National Open, with a 72-hole total score of 293; in Atlanta. In third place with a 299: veteran Professional Mildred ("Babe") Zaharias, who only last month helped cure Winner Rawls of a fast-developing slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster topped the field in steer roping, calf roping, and bulldogging...
...relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis, for which ACTH and cortisone are useless). ¶ After an executive's son fell into a poison ivy patch, researchers of the National Lead Co. went to work, announced last week a quick cure for ivy poisoning: ointment containing a salt of zirconium...
Because Brazil is 95% Roman Catholic, the disagreement over divorce was within the religious family. Carneiro himself is a Catholic. He and those who favor his annulment plan simply see a distressing picture of Brazil's matrimonial affairs and propose a cure-legal annulments after five years of legal separation. Those who oppose divorce say that "if it is bad without divorce, it would be worse with it." The church points to relatively successful divorceless societies in Argentina and Colombia, remembers that it fought down divorce proposals in Brazil in 1937 and 1946. Bishop Vicente Scherer of the state...
...concocter, Dudley J. LeBlanc, is a dark brown patent medicine that tastes bad. Until the Federal Trade Commission told him to tone down, Medicine Man LeBlanc spent millions of dollars in advertising to imply that his mixture of B vitamins, minerals and honey, all bathed in alcohol, would cure almost everything. He also has a corps of gagsters turning out jingles and jokes insinuating that Hadacol is an aphrodisiac. In dry southern states, Hadacol has another virtue; its 24-proof alcoholic content makes it just the thing for binges. Medicine Man LeBlanc, who prefers straight bourbon himself, can hardly understand...