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...everything," boasts the black-haired little bartender. "What have you got?" To the client complaining of ulcers, he says: "Muy bien, señor. For you, pisco from a bottle of turnip. That'll be 1½ soles [11?]." In a huge green bottle beside the ulcer cure soaks a banana. "Sĩ señor, bananas. They are to cure dandruff. The pisco sits for a month, absorbing the dandruff-eliminating elements and the hair-restoring elements right out of the banana. That's camomile steeping in the next bottle. Cures malaria. If you want...
...down. Crowell-Col-lier's top management was prepared to string along with Ruppel: in one year, Collier's advertising linage had dropped 15%, and Crowell-Collier's profits had plummeted from $4,866,000 to $2,419,-ooo. For these deep-seated troubles, a drastic cure was needed. Louis Ruppel was about the most drastic remedy to be found anywhere...
Unfortunately, says Author Bell, modern education, of which the Aldriches are typical products, is less a cure for modern immaturity than a cause of it. This, he asserts, is not the age of the Common Man, but "the Century of the uneducated Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. Untaught in the wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess...
...known only as "Dave" on the payroll. He was a former tennis pro who had quit drinking, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous. In Detroit last week, Dr. G. H. Gehrmann, Du Pont medical director, told a meeting of industrial physicians how Alcoholics Anonymous-and men like Dave-could help companies cure their dipsomaniacs...
...Last week the Keeley Institute of Dwight Ill., in a survey of 13,471 alcoholic patients given "the cure" over the past 18 years, found that by occupation, farmers topped its list of drinkers. Others in the top ten, in order: salesmen, merchants, mechanics, clerks, lawyers, foremen and managers, railroaders, physicians, manufacturers...