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...Orillia, Ont...
...Number? His methods proved to be simple, disarmingly unsophisticated-a kind of fraudulent folk poetry. For Selznick he once flew "the entire town" of Zenda. Ont. (pop. 12) to Manhattan to attend the premiere of The Prisoner of Zenda. After the Bird set up his own office, he encouraged indignant cries of fraud by claiming that he had insured a client (Southern Starlet Margaret Tallichet) for $1,000,000 against the loss of her drawl. Smugly he was able to exhibit the policy; he had indeed insured Margaret-for one day, at the cost...
Suds Rosa. In Port Arthur, Ont, where it is illegal to drink beer in a licensed beverage room unless seated, the provincial liquor licensing board clapped a four-week suspension on the Vendome Hotel when inspectors saw waiters serving beer to customers who had fallen off their chairs...
...Westminster and Victoria Hospitals in London, Ont., two brothers, Drs. John and Angus McLachlin, decided that the thing to do was to make the calf muscles pump the blood at full rate. To do this, they report in the Archives of Surgery, they attached stimulating electrodes (similar to the paste-on recording leads used in taking electrocardiograms) to the calves of patients undergoing long operations. A simple electrical pacemaker kept the muscles contracting and the blood flowing, clot-free. The Canadians believe that the method might save a lot of lives if enough surgeons...
Bending an Ankle? In Cooksville, Ont., John Kraycik, 59, accused of buying $257 worth of liquor in seven weeks and illegally offering it for sale, denied the charges, explained that he used the booze to sweeten his tea and "soak my feet," added: "I don't get drunk; I just feel good all day long...