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...ELISHA...
...slightly under the surface of most Bogey pictures (the frightening and disgusting homosexual misogynism of Capote's Beat the Devil, for example) there are hundreds, one fears thousands, who percieve only the reasonable superficial escapist qualities of all movies herein, performed delightedly and genially by Bogart, Bacall, the Houstons, Elisha Cook, Lorre, Greenstreet, and the gang...
...Elisha Perkins was reputed to be able to cure almost any kind of ailment with two small pieces of "magnetized" metal. A couple of centuries ago, his "magnetic tractors" allegedly drew diseases out of such celebrities as George Washington. He was discredited only when his magnetic tractors were discovered to be two pieces of painted wood. Since Elisha Perkins' day, medical charlatanism has made great strides, notes Dr. William H. Gordon in the medical magazine GP. Frequently the quackery is keyed to news of medical progress. Use of radioactive isotopes in medicine, for example, inspired some Comanche County, Texas...
...missed the opportunity to mention that there is a question whether Alexander Bell or Elisha Gray was the inventor of the telephone...
Another way to fight the recession, said Whirlpool Corp. Chairman Elisha Gray II, is to take a close look at products already on the shelf and see why they are not selling. "You can only conclude that it is because the merchandise we manufacturers have offered has not been attractive enough. Our past market experience has told us that we had overdesigned some of the features we were offering -I refer particularly to the complexity of some of today's modern home appliances -and our review has brought us back a little to products that are simpler to operate...