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Curly & Johnny. But that did not cure the trouble. The hottest syndicate at Mar del Plata this year was 20 strong, and raked in earnings estimated as high as 6,000,000 pesos. It was headed by a onetime Nazi sailor, nicknamed El Alemán, who first came to Argentina in 1939 when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the Rio de la Plata. Among the other big moneymakers were fruit hucksters, waiters and farmers, who were soon buying Cadillacs, Buicks and beach property. Known only by nicknames such as El Crespo (Curly...
...some extent, but none is both plentiful and entirely satisfactory. Okra for Shock. One new idea is an extract of the slippery vegetable, okra. Dr. Hiram B. Benjamin of Marquette Medical School, Milwaukee, discovered more or less by accident that an okra extract he was testing as a cure for stomach ulcers could be injected without immediate damage into the veins of dogs. Apparently the okra extract contains polysaccharide molecules similar to Dextran. Other blood experts say that the okra idea must be tested more thoroughly, on humans as well as dogs...
...turn of the 20th Century, the walls of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire home of the Russell family, were bulging with more than 500 canvases-one of the best private collections of old masters in England. The present duke has never bought a picture, but last week he had a cure for generations of collecting. With Woburn collapsing from dry rot and taxes, he had just auctioned off 200 of his less important old masters, including paintings by Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Velasquez, Murillo. Gross sales...
...citizen, perhaps the king of his people, and lived until he was about 70 years old. By that time he could not have been too unwilling to die. He was suffering from pyorrhea (infected jaw) and two painful and deforming diseases of the spine which even modern doctors cannot cure...
...been pretty well traced from its entrance through the nose or throat along the corridors of the central nervous system. Most researchers now believe that polio's havoc is wrought entirely through damage or destruction of the nerves alone. Despite millions spent in searching for a chemical cure, no way has yet been found to halt the disease, once it has started its march through the body. But new tricks in physiotherapy, orthopedic surgery, such rehabilitation gadgets as Barach's coughing lung, and more & more research, have cut the devastation of polio to the point where at least...