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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still unsettled point is the relationship between colds and allergies, though doctors admit that a layman doesn't much care what ails him, so long as he is promptly cured. Dr. William J. Kerr of the University of California's Medical School, a top authority on the subject, believes that only 25% of cold symptoms are due to allergy. Arguing from this thesis, he takes a dim view of anti-histaminics as cold cures. Said he: "To get one shot out of four wouldn't be very good hunting-and it's lousy medicine...
...determinedly friendly Norman Brokenshire, who has been on radio almost as long as static, has lost his faith in his trade only once. In 1926, after two years as a staff announcer on New York's WJZ, he left radio for vaudeville, convinced that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industry-and the only voluntary one-during the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol...
...sense I've suffered and that I'm sympathetic to other people's suffering," he says. "I get all kinds of letters telling me how I've helped people. I say to them: 'Keep right on doing what you're doing-as long as it's a good thing you're doing.' A woman wrote me that she was taking a drink from a bottle when I said that. She put it down and hasn't touched it since...
...Brokenshire earns about $100,000 a year. He has a house in Manhattan, a country place on Long Island, and is buying "all the insurance and annuities I can find." Says he: "The money means something to a man who's been through two bankruptcies. But the important thing is that I feel my experience is helping people-not just in A.A. but over...
...stage was turned into a fairyland of castles, caves and gardens. For three hours, through a prologue, three acts and a wedding (only the last part is familiar to most U.S. fans), audiences sat enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot (Queen of the Swans) and her flock...