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Time Out for Ginger (by Ronald Alexander) has a pretty familiar setup: a middle-class household of mother, father, outspoken servant and three teen-age girls. The fillip is that the youngest junior miss behaves like a junior mister and goes out for the high-school football team. Father, between having always wanted a son and having recently declaimed in public that the young should be free to do what they want, first sportingly and then stubbornly backs Ginger up. Soon the whole town's talking; next father's job at the bank is endangered. Fortunately Ginger, once...
Surgeons and medical inventors who have been trying to perfect a mechanical substitute for the human heart, to be used while delicate surgery is performed on the heart itself, got a fillip of encouragement last week. Three doctors at Detroit's Harper Hospital reported in the A.M.A. Journal that they had used a mechanical substitute for the left side of a patient's heart and kept his circulation going this way for 50 minutes. The patient made a good recovery. If, as the three doctors believed, they had diverted the patient's entire blood flow...
...Colorado Plateau were known for their scattering of dinosaur bones and the ruined homes of prehistoric cliff-dwelling Indians. But now the area is known for something far more important: uranium. At Uravan, Colo. last week, the U.S. Vanadium Corp., a subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon, gave a fillip to the wastelands' glamorous new reputation and the boom under way. U.S. Vanadium opened the biggest uranium refining mill in the U.S.; by using a new process, it hopes to extract uranium from ores heretofore passed by. Spotted within a 200-mile radius of U.S. Vanadium's property...
...absent in the ordinary solicitation. An annual gift to the "Friends" would be more like paying club does than kicking into a huge anonymous pet where it didn't really matter whether you gave or net. Here the feeling of membership in an association would lend an extra personal fillip to the request...
...added fillip to the tournay's renaissance is the donation of a trophy by Rockwood, Hugh, and Henry Foster, brothers who were all captain of Crimson squash teams. Henry, captain of last year's National Championship team, is current Intercollegiate Singles Champion...