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Children who get sick from such allergic conditions as hay fever, asthma and eczema may be like the little boy in Lewis Carroll's jingle ("And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases"). Children sometimes enjoy their parents' annoyance, according to Allergist Hyman Miller and Psychologist Dorothy W. Baruch, both of Beverly Hills, Calif. Miller and Baruch have finished a study of 90 children with allergies and 53 others without allergies. Last week they reported some of their findings to the American Orthopsychiatric Association's annual meeting...
...painfully plain woman doctor, bundled him off to the family's abandoned country house, old Tom feared that it was not so much out of affection for him as out of an interest in how he'd leave his money. But he settled down to enjoy the countryside he had known as a young fellow, and to watch with a critical eye the love affair and marriage of Ann and his nephew Robert...
...Sneering & Snickering." Besides, books were being put on trial, protested the lawyers. Judge Medina spiked that. On trial, he said, were "these individual defendants that you see here, who once in a while seem to enjoy these proceedings so much...
...speak not only to those who enjoy the blessings and consolation of revealed religion, but also to those who face the mysteries of human destinies alone...
...almost 93-year-old marshal was once more to enjoy trees and flowers, there was little time to lose. In his fortress prison on the Ile de Yeu, the man who once dragged that he would live to be no was rapidly failing. By special dispensation he was no longer forced to make his bed or sweep his room, and he had given up his two daily 30-minute strolls in the prison yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge...