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...Deadly Grip. Through most of his ups & downs Birdsall Sweet kept his spirits high, learned to make the best of his ironclad life. He learned checkers, chess and cards, dictated his plays to a nurse. He followed baseball avidly, improved his bridge with the help of visiting Vassar girls. He read, with a nurse turning every page, and worked his eyes so that he soon had to have strong glasses. Last year he learned canasta...
...years went by there was nothing more that anyone could do. Polio would still not release him from its deadly grip. A spinal curvature developed and gradually worsened. The ravages of kidney stones sapped his disease-ridden body. His strength was almost gone. Last week, after Birdsall Sweet, 32, was finally released from 18 years and seven months in his iron lung, Dr. Smith performed his last, sad service. On the death certificate he wrote: "Acute nephritis due to chronic kidney stones due to poliomyelitis...
...film, Paramount's Let's Dance. Though Hollywood's box office has been slumping, there are still surefire receipts in a lavish Technicolored musical-and not enough surefire cinemusical stars to go around. As the cinemusical girl of 1950, Betty holds just about as firm a grip on the immediate future as Hollywood can offer...
...north lay China, the most tragic example of the contact between East & West. South and East of Siam were Indonesia and the Philippines, the most hopeful cases of what could happen after imperialism's exit. West and south of Siam was Malaya, where imperialism still had an uneasy grip...
Bangkok's nightclubs are currently in the grip of a new dance craze. The ram-wong has spread to Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila, and experts say it will hit the U.S. soon. It is a modernization of an ancient dance, in which couples curve back their fingers, spin and weave about each other, but never touch. King Phumiphon should love...