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Times had changed from those exhilarating days when The Plan was going to cure the depression and Dr. Townsend strode into Washington with 25 million signatures in his pocket to tell Congress that if it didn't like his plan there would be a different Congress, and if the President didn't like it, there would be a different President. Money had gotten a little short to support the big lobby which Townsend still doggedly maintains in Washington. But the doctor had found a cure. Said he: "I had to find something we could sell to the public...
...gaunt frame his expensive clothes give an unfurled effect), several ardent Thurberites have already pointed out that Maugham cannot draw. But, as the question has often been phrased in his home town, Columbus, Ohio: "Can Thurber, either?" For some time now, a psychiatrist has been writing Thurber, offering to cure him of his drawing...
...used to be that budding intellectuals like Evans became casualties of the left, and fell for Communist propaganda. Evans is a casualty of the right. Fortunately for him, his cure will be swift if I know my University of Maryland faculty. I can see them gently destroying the hokum he will write in his proposed master's thesis, Truman and Stalin at Potsdam...
...bottom, a psychological disorder. Roger John Williams, famed biochemist of the University of Texas, had a different theory. The trouble, he argued might have a physical basis. Now, in Nutrition and Alcoholism (University ol Oklahoma; $2), Williams suggests that vitamins have achieved history's first honest-to-goodness cure in a case of alcoholism, making the patient truly able to take a drink or leave...
British-born Eduardo Caso, 50, moved to the U.S. in 1930, sang on the radio for a while, then came down with tuberculosis and went to Tucson for the cure. Says he: "For two years I did nothing. And then I decided I had to make money. I opened a singing school and rounded up the best boys I could find and began training them. At first the town wasn't very cooperative, but they're coming around now." Caso gives his boys six hours a week of rehearsal, stresses one thing above all: "Discipline. Discipline first, relax...