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...Infections after burns delay healing, make skin grafts slough off faster, and may turn a superficial burn into a deep one. Researchers at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, searching for a locally applied antiseptic that would kill germs without destroying tissue, report best results with a weak solution of chlorhexidine, now use it in preference to all other methods of treating burns and scalds...
...during halves of the Globetrotters' basketball ballet, Donegan crooks his right knee, pumps his foot convulsively and whangs his guitar, occasionally wrenching his pelvis Elvis-fashion. Most often he sounds like Grand Ole Opry cornball recorded at 33⅓ r.p.m. played at 78. Backing up the young (25) Glasgow-born skiffler are a second guitarist, a two-beat drummer and the best showman of the combo, a red-goateed bass plucker named Mickey Ashman, who twirls his big fiddle, tops the act by rolling on the floor with...
...much terror among his subalterns as he ever did among the enemy, and runs his mess on lines calculated to make dinner with the Macbeths and Banquo's ghost seem like afternoon tea. And because he had been a ranker who had risen from the gutters of Glasgow, he is a figure of awe and almost superstitious regard to the kilted men who swill their usquebaugh and sweat to master pibrochs (variations on bagpipe tunes). As he warms his "celebrated bottom" before the mess fire (nothing, it should be said to satisfy Sassenach and U.S. curiosity, is worn beneath...
...high-ceilinged back parlor of the Richmond mansion of Virginia's late Novelist Ellen Glasgow, the deans and presidents of twelve colleges and universities in the area gathered one day last week for a kind of meeting that is all too rare in the world of U.S. higher education. All members of the Richmond Area University Center, they had come not only to exchange ideas but to plan a series of projects together that would have been impossible for any one campus to try alone. In the last ten years, the educators had learned an important lesson: the best...
...citadel of Satan he would have to tackle some day. He has decided to begin this spring. Billy and his twelve-man team have signed up Madison Square Garden from May 15 through mid-October to preach salvation to New Yorkers as he has preached it in London, Glasgow, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, New Delhi. This week, in the evangelical monthly Christian Life, Graham explains why he put New York off so long and why he is taking...