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...hypertensive patient has one dis eased kidney, Dr. Goldblatt can lower his blood pressure by removing it. But where both kidneys are clogged, there is nothing he can do. So, although fellow physicians hail Dr. Goldblatt's work as one of the great medical contributions of the last 20 years, they admit that, so far, nothing much can be done with...
...military band-as every schoolboy knows to his marrow. Oldest and most famed of all such U. S. bands is the U. S. Marine Band. Founded in 1798, the "Marines" have played at every inauguration since Thomas Jefferson's day. Glorious in scarlet uniforms, the band plays Hail to the Chief every time the President appears at a big state shindig...
...returned from the desert with its mind made up. At a Curtiss-Wright meeting one day, Odlum asked whether the other 14 committees had a solution. They hadn't. He asked for a day, returned with a description of a hypothetical "X Corporation," told how a marriage with hail of "X Corporation" would solve Curtiss' problem. The directors agreed, but they did not tumble until Odlum spelled out the name of "X Corporation": ATLAS...
...handed over the money (although he did say, eloquently for a banker, "They can buy everything that humans need in everyday life"). Nor did modest K. P. Chen, Chinese banker who negotiated the 1936 U. S.-Chinese (gold-silver) agreement, the 1938 $25,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan, hail the new loan for the victory it was. Mr. Chen wanted to keep out of the limelight, minimize his part in the proceedings and get back to China as soon as possible. But because the European war has checked China's flight of capital, improved the balance...
Superman comes on the air with a shrill, shrieking sound effect (combination of a high wind and a bomb whine, recorded in the Spanish war). Voices hail him with: "Up in the sky-look! It's a bird. . . . It's a plane. . . . It's SUPERMAN!" Superman or no superman, he has to watch his step on the radio. Mothers' clubs have their eyes on him, the Child Study Association of America feels that his occasional rocket & space ship jaunts are a bit too improbable. By radio's own war rules, he must remain neutral...