Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas' 400 practicing naturopaths, knew just what to do for her. First he gave her repeated enemas. Next he administered the pendulum test-a piece of steel supported on chains between two rods which he held over Mrs. Keene's heart. "Your heart is beating too fast and the blood pressure is too high," he told her. His diagnosis continued: a large heart lesion which would take a long time to cure; also kidney and bladder trouble. Reynard charged Mrs. Keene $10 for the examination, $4 for some pills...
Elsie May Keene went around to the office of Arvid Lovgren, complained to him of pains in her throat. Naturopath Lovgren took her blood pressure, told her that her heartbeat was too fast, promptly administered a "chiropractic adjustment" with a vibrator. "But how will that stop the pains in my throat?" she asked. Lovgren gave her pills, prescribed a diet, then fitted what he called an electrical heat-ray machine around her neck. It began to burn on the left side. He said that was where the infection was, but he treated the burn with Unguentine and charged only...
...Manhattan, she spent 3½ years indentured to radio's Eddie Cantor, did poorly in several movies (Belle of the Yukon, Up in Arms), and was fired from one of her first radio shows by the late Tobacco Tyrant George Washington Hill for not singing "loud and fast enough." Self-conscious of her limited looks ("They said I had no glamour"), brunette Dinah had her nose bobbed and a gap in her teeth closed, became a blonde and one of the best-dressed women in show business...
...with her hair died raven black and fingernails painted silver, Peggy Guggenheim is a flamboyant yet somehow regal character, whom Venetians call "L'Ultima Dogaressa" (The Last Duchess). Gondoliers have made a fortune ferrying her guests and visitors (Peggy herself travels in her own private gondola or fast speedboat), who come to sit on her zebra-striped couches, gaze at the display of modern paintings, constructions and sculptures. Infectiously gay and gossipy, Peggy Guggenheim has made her palazzo not only one of Venice's institutions but a crossroads of the artistic world...
KENT SALES BOOM is puffing up P. Lorillard Co. earnings so fast that Wall Streeters guess earnings may be as high as $2 a share this quarter v. 42? in fourth quarter of 1956 and $1.02 in this year's third quarter...