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Your June 2 report of acupuncture [the ancient Chinese custom of giving the patient the needles] has aroused deep interest...
...Rule & Custom. If the Ikemen lose the round before the pro-Taft national committee, they may throw their next punch on the floor of the convention within a few minutes after Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson bangs the gavel for the first time. The Eisenhower campaign manager, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, can move to change a rule and a precedent which have applied at Republican conventions since William Howard Taft's steamroller ran down Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. The rule: the temporary chairman decides whether contested delegations seated temporarily by the national committee should be permitted to vote on contests...
Crockford's Clerical Directory is the 94-year-old (but unofficial) Who's Who of the Church of England. By custom, each new edition carries an anonymous preface, commenting on the state of the world and the church. Last week the new Crockford's was out, and its preface had churchmen-particularly high churchmen-smarting under their clerical collars...
...Concours custom, each of the twelve finalists was expected to perform with the Belgian National Orchestra 1) a new composition none had ever played before, and 2) a well-practiced concerto of his own choice. This year's new composition, a fiercely atonal concerto by Belgian Composer Raymond Chevreuille, had the contestants in an uproar. Complained one: "Bartok and Prokofiev are duck soup compared to it." Said another, singling out two men who happened to be among the 13 contest judges: "Even Rubinstein and Casadesus couldn't play it." Concours officials agreed to lop off the third movement...
...tell if he is still painting. He uses almost no models, works mainly from recollection in his small studio, and in jealously guarded secret. His custom is to put every picture away for six months to a year, then decide whether to show it or destroy it. This year, for the first time in Dublin memory, the annual exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy had no new Yeats to show...