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...stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench] . . . don't be a Fanny Willie [showoff] ... dig up a new arm in some cemetery." Besides being athletic director and basketball coach, Keaney also brews his own medicines; the team swears by his skin-hardener and his cure for athlete's foot...
...days ago Parkhurst informed Federal narcotics agents that the entire motive for his alleged swindles and thefts was to obtain sufficient funds to cure an unspecified young lady of the drug habit...
...expert on stomach ulcers (TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
Malaria's cause is known: a tiny animalcule injected by a mosquito's sting. But no one knows what makes the disease so hard to cure permanently. Parasitologists think it is because the malaria bug knows how to hide: even when the bloodstream has been cleared by an antimalarial drug, the organism may remain in body tissues, lying low for new attacks. If scientists could grow the parasite in a test tube and find out exactly what makes it tick, they would be well along toward wiping out malaria...
Nothing is wrong with "Radditudes" that a little showmanship can't cure. It is the only literary magazine running currently on the local front, and hidden away in Cambridge desk-drawers must be more than enough talented stories, essays, and poems to fill one slim magazine once a month. The editors of "Radditudes" must, find a way of attracting material from the tops of these drawers. With the exception of a few stories and a number of poems, they have not done so in their first two issues...