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...dreams," wrote Teresa, "carry me to a small village in the Caucasus . . . Sick people come to me and I cure them. Nobody thinks about money because everyone has all he needs. Special rays replace sunlight in factories. Work is easy because the heaviest part is done by machines. Anyone who wants one can have an automobile." As time goes by, Teresa can even see herself entering the evening of life a "surgeon in a great clinic," and the inventor of "an important medicine...
...years at the clinic school, kindly, frowzy Grace Fernald has treated hundreds of thousands of such cases of "word blindness." Her only requirements: that pupils be of normal intelligence and that their parents leave them at the clinic until the cure is complete. In two months to two years, she has usually been able to bring their reading ability up to their mental age level...
Hollywood, which is no place to be bald in, is an excellent place for people who claim they can cure baldness. Red-haired Patricia M. Stenz runs a hair and scalp clinic across the street from Hollywood's "Radio City" at Sunset and Vine. She has a theory that all baldness is caused by a fungus. A bald head, says Miss Stenz, is something like athlete's foot, at the other end of the body; it runs in families, as athlete's foot does, not through heredity but because sons catch it from their fathers...
...Sunday morning the Deweys attended services at interdenominational Christ Church, located in an old Victorian meeting hall. They heard the Rev. Dr. Ralph C. Lankier, a Presbyterian, preach: "We do not have the right to be smug. We cannot cure evil by ourselves, but we can by ... working with...
...Wolff offers an alibi, but no cure, to people with routine hangovers. The amount of alcohol consumed has little to do with the morning-after head pain, he says: it comes from fatigue and excitement. Heavy drinkers will applaud the Wolff theory: that whooping it up all night, without touching a drop, is enough to cause a hangover...