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Would the law, if passed, stop strikes? The Smith-Connally Act, also passed in a spasm of congressional rage, had simply multiplied and complicated the very troubles it sought to cure...
...custodian of the nation's meager supply of streptomycin was on the hot seat. To Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer* it seemed that everyone wanted the powerful new drug-foreign nations; Congressmen (for their constituents); distraught fathers & mothers, anxious to try anything that might cure a sick child. Newspapers were featuring swallow-hard stories about babies wasting away for want of streptomycin...
...hangover cure was not so certain. But most radio executives believed that the industry would be much wiser once it got over its present jitters. They looked for more experimentation in programming, to develop new and cheaper shows within the budget of smaller sponsors. They also expected more network financing of such high art as Toscanini and the NBC Symphony. Whatever developed, U.S. listeners would welcome the change. To many, the only direction left for radio...
Last week Tom Sawyer's amiable hocus-pocus got a nod of approval from a scientific quarter. Said Dr. Hermann Vollmer of New York in the current Psychosomatic Medicine: suggestion is "at least as effective" a cure for warts as X ray or surgery. He documented his case with the findings of French, German and Swiss dermatologists, outlined his own experiments with over 100 children...
...Besson admitted that high finance was in his blood-he was a nephew of the late, crack-pate deputy Philibert Hippolyte Marcelin Besson, called "the Incredible," famed for his Ed Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle his Europas; sometimes he passed them to pay hotel bills...