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Your spelling [TIME, April 18] of baling wire as "bailing wire" is haywire. Baling wire is commonly known as hay wire and the term "haywire" originates from the fact that when a thing is repaired with baling wire it usually remains haywire-although this was not true of the Pittsburgh Pirates last year ... In any case, "bailing wire" is haywire and baling wire is the true hay wire...
Stronger Drug. A new drug for such allergies as hay fever, hives and asthma was announced by a six-woman, two-man team headed by Dr. Richard Tislow of Schering Corp.'s laboratories in Bloomfield, NJ. The drug is called Chlor-Trimeton. In experiments on animals it proved to be 50 times as strong as some drugs now used to combat histamine (the substance thought to be released in the body as part of allergic reactions). But its strength did not cause a corresponding increase in unpleasant effects, and it lasted much longer. Chlor-Trimeton is now being tried...
Children who get sick from such allergic conditions as hay fever, asthma and eczema may be like the little boy in Lewis Carroll's jingle ("And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases"). Children sometimes enjoy their parents' annoyance, according to Allergist Hyman Miller and Psychologist Dorothy W. Baruch, both of Beverly Hills, Calif. Miller and Baruch have finished a study of 90 children with allergies and 53 others without allergies. Last week they reported some of their findings to the American Orthopsychiatric Association's annual meeting...
...held on board, the mighty cruiser H.M.S. Glasgow and featured free refreshments and illustrated tours of the ship. Those members of the team who had enjoyed service in the U.S.N. saw fit to miss this one and made a beeline over to the Elbow Beach Surf Club to make hay while the sun shone. The Elbow Beach Surf Club, it will be remembered, was where the visiting college girls were quartered...
...Paris, Rita Hay worth watched Aly Khan finish next to last in a horse race for gentlemen jockeys (gibed the railbirds: "Trop d'amour"). She also announced that they would get married "within four weeks. I wish it could be sooner," she added demurely, "but we have to wait...