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...money to weekly guest stars, Miss Parsons is supposed to bring ungenerous cinemactors into line through their fear of unfavorable publicity in the Hearstpapers. One of Hollywood's most derided and dreaded characters, chunky, many-chinned "Lolly" Parsons gives in her column an astounding daily show of uncritical gush. Great & good friend of William Randolph Hearst, Miss Parsons also professed great affection for Hollywood's grande dame, Cinemactress Mary Pickford...
...silver dollars, in color from flaming red to black & blue. Bruises cause transient purpuric blotches called ecchymoses. Typhus fever causes dotty purpura or petechiae. The kind of purpura which interested Dr. Fishbein last week was thrombocyto-penic purpura. Victims of this condition are constantly in danger of suffering a gush of blood from any of the orifices of the body. Without apparent cause or warning blood is likely to accumulate in a puddle somewhere under their skin, in the brain, in the adrenal glands. Disease renders capillary walls abnormally permeable to blood by simultaneously thinning the blood and capillary walls...
...quarantine in an old-fashioned hospital in Odessa he was glad to be leaving Russia. Nevertheless the U. S. S. R. impressed him: the kindliness of the people, the devotion of the minority of patriots who are working to bring the Russian experiment to success. Says he: "Only idiots gush about Russia. Only idiots pretend that life there is easy . . . whomever...
...gush of water from a Massachusetts Hall window brought the gendarmes hotfoot upstairs to add some more names to their lists...
...With a gush of enthusiasm which will intensify the faith of the believer, but probably repel the skeptic, Author Strong surveys Soviet achievement, finds it all praiseworthy. Embarrassing inquiries she tackles with slippery candor. The Soviet Union sells oil to warring Italy because ''idealist gestures are dangerous." Political prisoners are not sentenced merely for expressing anti-Soviet views: "all were charged with definite action against the government." Convicts live and work in "labor camps" under such admirable conditions that some refuse to leave when their terms are up. Stalin has no dictatorial powers; he is just an exceptionally...