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...Kolouch's prize case was a businessman of 46 who had had a mortal fear of surgery since childhood, capped by an unsuccessful operation for hernia repair at the age of 41. After this earlier operation he had needed seven doses of pain relievers and was hospitalized for five days. Moreover, the operation failed, and he suffered agony for five years because he could not face repeated surgery. Dr. Kolouch talked him into it and used hypnosis. With his unconscious anxiety and conscious fears at rest, the patient needed only one dose of an opiate...
Costly Facial. There are some gloomy realities behind these figures. The Ladies' Home Journal, once the uncontested doyenne of the women's magazine field, is locked in mortal combat with McCall's-and losing. McCall's has passed the Journal in both circulation and advertising, and the Journal has slipped into the red. Curtis' prize possession, the Post, was given an extensive and costly facial three months ago. And although the renovated Post has since shown a healthy growth-it touched a circulation high of 6,800,000 last month-it is not likely...
...Early Music seemed to suffer from a paralysis of over-refinement. While the music wanted to skip up the aisles of Sanders Theater, or in its serene moments, stretch out on its back and smile up at the ceiling, most of the performers held on to it with a mortal fear of spontaneity. Thus two sonatas by Bach and two by Mozart were unduly tame in a generally competent, but uninspired performance...
Orpheus becomes a demigod, standing beyond mortal sympathies and sorrows, while Eurydice, by contrast, is even more appealingly human and defencelessly child-like. The power of his song, to charm and subdue, is beyond question--drawing, perhaps, on credence strengthened by myths leading back far past Orpheus and the Sirens...
Science & Sex. First or last, the Weekly has left its indelible thumb smudge on the newspaper scene. It was created in 1896 as the American Sunday Magazine, Popular Periodical of the New York Journal for use as a weapon in the mortal struggle between Hearst's Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's World. Pulitzer brandished a Sunday supplement of his own, the Sunday Magazine-but he had to do without the help of his imaginative Sunday editor, Morrill Goddard, 30, whom Hearst had hired away earlier that year, along with the World's entire Sunday staff...