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...Measures. Treatment No. 1 is antagonistic bacilli, taken by mouth in ginger ale or some other carbonated beverage. Once in the patient's system, the bacilli produce an "antibiotic" which kills off the typhoid germs in two weeks to a month. Treatment No. 2, a combination of penicillin, three sulfa drugs (thiazole, diazine and merazine) plus alcohol and a dye called iodophthalein, injected in the patients' muscles or veins, works faster but it made 50% of Manteno's patients violently...
...Berkleys of Broadway. Expert hoofing and whirling by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (TIME, April...
...Berkleys of Broadway. Some expert hoofing and whirling by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (TIME, April...
...moviegoers who remember them in Flying Down to Rio (1933), the impersonation doesn't quite come off. For one thing, time-even in Hollywood-has not stood still. Ginger and Fred are no longer quite up to the soaring, smoothly paced routines of the '305. Also missing (with one exception: They Can't Take That Away from Me) are the romantic Gershwin tunes which used to lift and carry their pictures along. Nevertheless, what is left makes much better entertainment than most cinemusicals. Except for a few slow spots, e.g., a flat-footed Scottish number in kilts...
...breezy, sophisticated style which they themselves brought to perfection. In his best solo routine-a bit of high-powered choreography in a shoe shop-Astaire proves that at 50 he is still the best all-round heel-totoe man in the business. The rest of The Barkleys proves that Ginger (who, like the heroine she plays, has had her fling as a dramatic actress) is still the best movie dancing partner that Astaire has ever...