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Weaver's lyrics and conversation-pieces are, almost without exception, expressions of the helplessness of ordinary citizens to handle bad breaks in their lives. His "vernacular" mimics the point-blank way Americans have of admitting helplessness; but it fails to register the optimism Americans normally extract from feeling 100% free to be honest about their helplessness...
...passed the remarkable news on to his colleagues and soon the Pasteur Institute in Paris began work on the use of animal poisons for relief of uncontrollable pain. That was ten years ago. Most practical poison to use, the French scientists discovered, is cobra venom, which is easy to extract, measure and inject. Fortnight ago, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Northwall Rutherford of Brookline, Mass. issued a set of standard directions on the everyday use of cobra venom...
...stubborn patients, however, were given a further course of injections. Along with pure vitamin B 1 they received large intramuscular doses of concentrated liver extract. All of them were soon relieved...
Notes between the notes: Magic Key program Sunday went sadistic, putting on a swell new swing band, and saying. "That's all, kiddies. We'll tell you the name of the outfit in a few weeks" . . . Ha! Kemp's record of "Blue Moonlight" (Victor), a concert jazz extract like "Deep Purple," is one of the best the band has done in a long while . . . Contrary to general reports, Jack Harlow's ('41) imitation of Bix Beiderbecke at the Sanders Theater Tuesday evening was very well done. Considering the handicaps under which the band was working, the evening was a success...
...76th Congress last week again resembled a desultory grab bag from which some members were trying to extract prizes, personal or political, while other members strove for distinction by staying their hands...