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...breakthrough in the beauty business. "The treatment." reported Look in its Aug. 29 issue, "is the latest advance in substituting a chemical for the surgeon's knife." The article was directed at "the thousands of women who spend millions of dollars each year hopefully trying to regain the facial appearance of their more youthful days." For $1,000 they could have a two-week stay at the Budkon Center in Westport, Conn., where a mild burning with buffered carbolic acid would wipe away sagging skin, wrinkles, freckles, acne scars, and the troubled look of middle age-all under...
...sooner had Look hit the stands than customers anxious for a carbolic facial made a beeline for Budkon. But not all the new clients were the sort that had been anticipated. Police, fire and health officials who also had had a look at Look showed up. They were bent on closing Budkon...
Known to most laymen as "shaking palsy," the condition was named for James Parkinson, an English physician who described it in 1817. An affliction that has claimed many famous victims,-it is marked by slowness and stiffness of movement, facial immobility, shuffling gait, forward-leaning posture, and "pill-rolling" movements with the fingers. Most characteristic is the tremor, usually of the limbs, sometimes of the head, especially noticeable at rest. It does not kill. Drugs relieve a few of the symptoms, but the only radical treatment is daring brain surgery pioneered by New York University's Dr. Irving Cooper...
...Broadway's William Inge) ; and opposite Vivien Leigh, he has just made The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' only novel, directed by José Quintero. Top directors, in short, consider him the best of the new young leading men. With a facial and vocal suggestion of Montgomery Clift and mannerisms of James Dean, he is the latest incumbent in the line of arrogant, attractive, hostile, moody, sensitive, selfconscious, bright, defensive, ambitious, stuttering, self-seeking, and extremely talented actors who become myths before they...
Acne-humiliating facial pimples-afflicts at least half of all adolescents. Medicine does not know for sure what causes acne, but teen-agers eat lots of sweets, so sweets often get the blame. Last week two Chicago dermatologists exonerated sweets...