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...doctors began to be called chiropodists in the 18th century - just why is not certain.* Down the years they have winced as though somebody had stepped on their corns when patients mispronounced the first syllable "sheer" or confused them with chiropractors. The bookish among them were bothered, too, to find that H. W. Fowler in his Modern English Usage waspishly called the word chiropodist "a barbarism and a genteelism," added that the normal word for such a practitioner should be "corn-cutter...
...customs such as the importance of the "bride-price" and the practice of female circumcision Some delegates advised against moving too fast in eliminating either, on grounds that to most Africans the bride price is the most tangible token of a marriage and that uncircumcised girls under present circumstances find it almost impossible to get anyone within their own tribes to marry them. "Hasty action," said one delegate, "will only create new problems-problems of husbandless women roaming the streets...
This week White announced that he would leave Mills to teach medieval history at the University of California at Los Angeles. "I've been here 15 years," he explained, "and I've begun to find myself quoting myself." If White is quoting himself, other people have been quoting him too. Women's higher education may in general still be the same mess of spinach he found it, but it will miss Gourmet White's special brand of vinegar...
...date index that could tell economists at a glance where the economy stands. Last fall the Joint Economic Committee recommended such an index, but Congress must first appropriate money to improve existing indexes. Until some overall measure of the economy's health is worked out, the Government will find the job of managing the economy by credit and other fiscal tools harder than it should be, for present indicators do not give enough facts on where the economy is-and where it is going...
...television at 18, played leading roles for two seasons (Studio One, Kraft Theater], then put in a weary tour in Hollywood acting in second-rate films (New York Confidential, The Naked Street). Last August she went back to Manhattan to study acting with Drama Coach Herbert Berghof-and to find sudden fame on Broadway...