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...immediate cure for their specific afflictions. What the carefully qualified report did suggest was the exciting possibility that experiments in the direct application of electrical stimuli to the brain or peripheral nerves may one day enable some of the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the lame to walk again-after a fashion, anyway...
...realized in this field, Krieg warns, man must first enlarge the horizons of his knowledge of the brain itself, until he knows exactly what part each tiny area plays in motor activity or sensory perception. After that, some of the great possibilities might become a reality for the lame, the deaf and the blind...
...Jolson Sings Again," is a prime example of their handiwork. "The Jolson Story," to which the present effort is a lame sequel, made very good business for the box offices when it came out two years ago; a movie about the "mammy" singer of the twenties, with Al Jolson's voice on the sound track, was almost a sure thing from the start. But there were a few of Jolson's top numbers that couldn't be fitted in. When the film turned out to be a hit, the moviemakers couldn't resist the temptation to have Jolson sing again...
John Lewis had no need for further comment. The word had already gone out. To U.S. coal miners, he was plainly proclaiming that the coal industry had declared war on widows, orphans, and the lame, halt and blind, and that a strike was in order. As John L. had prophesied, the halt in royalty payments had caused "reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry...
...story got around last week, democratic Uruguayans, long among the staunchest friends of the U.S. in South America, broke out in a fit of anti-U.S. rage. Screamed Montevideo's El Diario: "Commercial cannibalism!" Except for sincere but lame assurances that the U.S. had no reason to discriminate, the Army could offer no explanation...