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...Mexico's Federal District Penitentiary one morning last week, 250 of the country's toughest thugs and cutthroats gawked like sentimental sidewalk watchers at the ceremony in their prison courtyard. Pretty Maria de Jesus Torres Martinez, 28, had come there to be married to a frog-faced murderer named Jose Ortiz Munoz, called El Sapo (The Bullfrog) by his fellow inmates. Demure in a green frock and red shoes, Maria de Jesus mooned over El Sapo, natty in a clean striped uniform, as he listened with rapt attention to the district judge...
...polio respirator center, believed that other patients might be taught to do the same, and began to experiment. Last week the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced that their new method will be taught to partially paralyzed patients at all of its centers. Its name: glossopharyngeal, or "frog," breathing...
...Frog breathing increases the time which patients can spend outside the iron lung. Before learning the technique, one group of eleven patients at Rancho Los Amigos was able to remain outside their respirators for an average of only 4½ minutes. After mastering it, their average time jumped to 4½ hours. Frog breathing gives patients a big psychological boost, also enables them to cough, ending a small but maddening frustration that besets the paralyzed who feel the throat irritation but cannot relieve it, and it allows them to speak audibly...
Perfume & Frog Fat. Stalin rewarded the Hammer by showering his family with favors. Madame Paulina Molotov (her revolutionary name is Zhemchuzhina, meaning a pearl) is an olive-skinned Jewess, who looks a little like the Duchess of Windsor. She was born in the Ukraine, "the poorest of the poor," but as the Premier's wife,* was soon gaily commuting from a stylish glass-and-steel dacha on the Moscow River. When Stalin issued his famous Diktat-Let us be gay, Comrades-the Pearl was appointed boss of the Soviet Perfume and Cosmetics Trust. "My husband works on their souls...
...Russian newspaper readers, Madame Molotov's attempt to make soap from frog fat was a surefire joke. So was her 1936 visit (as Olga Karpovskaya) to New York and Washington, where she lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming...