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...records, Half as Much, her voice has an easy smoothness, an unsophisticated warmth. As she bounces along in Botch-a-Me, she adopts the tone of an earthy Italian mama, but her smile sings through as she gets the kiss she asks for. In Too Old to Cut the Mustard, a bit of hillbilly horseplay, she changes pace completely and sings raucous country alto to Marlene Dietrich's improbable baritone...
...optimist," Lurçat says, "and my tapestries are optimists." His designs are filled with riotous color and movement; flocks of flitting butterflies, bounding animals and forests of flying leaves, all done in brilliant reds, blues, mustard yellows and jet black. Sometimes the optimism comes out with a reverse twist. One of his best works is a large (210 sq. ft.) affair with an evil-looking creature covered with yellow and black feathers facing a gaily prancing deer-and a legend: "So you will better understand unhappiness [which] is too stupid to exist...
Shock Treatment. In Glasgow, Scotland, George Patterson tried 51 remedies, finally stopped a ten-day attack of hiccups with a draft of hot mustard and cold water...
...only weapon against these inoperable cancers and were effective in only a few types of cases. In the last five years, Boston's Dr. Sidney Farber and a team of assistants have been getting encouraging results with new drugs. One of the first to show promise was nitrogen mustard (a deadly poison developed in World War II for chemical warfare). Newer and better, Dr. Farber believes, are the awkwardly named "folk acid antagonists." These, like ACTH and cortisone, are most often effective against the leukemias...
Back on the Farm. "Jimmy," for whom the clinic and research building was named, is a New England farm boy. When he first saw Dr. Farber, the diagnosis was dismal: lymph-node cancer. Previous results with nitrogen mustard had been spotty, so Jimmy got three (out of the seven) folic acid antagonists. Today he is back doing chores on the family farm and feeling fine. His cancer shows no sign of activity...