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Next day Hollywood almost returned to normal. Marilyn was back on the set of The Seven Year Itch in pink pajamas, going through "one of the funniest scenes in the movie" with Actor Tom Ewell. Despite her heartbreak, said a studio pressagent, "the show must go on." "Why?" asked a newsman. Answered the pressagent: "We're $50,000 and three days behind production on the picture already...
...York, another, better-known phenomenon whooshed into Manhattan: Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe landed from an airliner and, said the tabloids, the damage, compared to Edna's, was inestimable. Obviously relishing every wolf call and whistle, Marilyn spent her time between a few days of picture-shooting (The Seven Year Itch) at a few nightclubs and Broadway shows, and with a few hundred avid autograph-hunting youngsters...
Also Barber's Itch. Hoxsey's rise began 30 years ago in Illinois, when he inherited the magic formula from his father, an itinerant veterinarian turned faith healer and "cancer expert." Skipping from town to town across the U.S., Hoxsey prescribed the tonic for internal tumors, and a yellowish arsenical powder (a widely used turn-of-the-century remedy) for skin cancer. By his own count, he was arrested more than 100 times. During a suit against the A.M.A. in Iowa, in 1931, one patient testified that after Hoxsey diagnosis and treatment, he had gone to a local...
...triple-threat leaves of poison ivy sprouted furiously over most of the U.S., Ayerst Laboratories began distributing a protective cream, Kerodex, which has saved gangs of railroad section workers from the itch. For both prevention and treatment of ivy poisoning, the National Lead Co. was boosting Zotox, in which an oxide of the wonder metal zirconium neutralizes the irritating factor urushiol...
...forged hinges, the house stayed solid and eminently habitable. But the city of Philadelphia, once so distant, finally grew out to the Shall-cross-Roberts house; the three acres remaining of the farm were almost surrounded by new row houses. The Robertses stubbornly refused to sell. Last year the itch for modernity got the better of grandson William I. Roberts III - he bought a new house in Levittown, Pa. and moved out with his son William I. Roberts IV. The old place seemed empty. Last week Owner Roberts, now 74, finally sold out for a "price that would knock your...