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...they analyze the success already achieved, researchers are finding that it resulted not only from cell tests ("Pap smears") but also from many other factors. And in pursuing their search for the causes of the disease, they are amassing evidence suggesting that many, perhaps most cases of uterine cancer are triggered by a common virus transmitted during sexual contact. This does not mean that uterine cancer is either an "infectious" or "venereal" disease in the usual sense; but it does suggest measures by which the disease might, to a great extent, be prevented...
...flatters their complexions. In the end, nothing about La Chinoise can be taken seriously-neither the mock-revolutionaries, who cannot commit a terrorist act without knocking off the wrong man, nor Godard, who fails as a satirist because his preening pupils, full of the pop and pap of the New left, are already a satire on themselves. Despite sonorous allusions to such major artists as Brecht, Goethe and Dostoevsky, La Chinoise is only, like its subject, scan-deep: dazzling on the surface and virtually vacuous beneath...
Died. Fannie Hurst, 78, one of the most popular, if not most highly acclaimed, U.S. woman authors in the past half-century; in Manhattan. To many critics she was the sob sister of American letters, and her 30 novels and countless short stories little more than glorified True Confessions pap-orphan servant girls (Lummox, 1923), the secret love of a married man (Back Street, 1930), mother love (Imitation of Life, 1933). But her novels sold many millions of copies, and magazines paid $70,000 for the serial rights. "What success I enjoy," she once said, "comes from my inner convictions...
...spirits really rise with the news from the Voice of America, which begins the day's transmissions with a two-minute beeping of "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." A few bars of this serves as my daily patriotic pap and it elicits remarkable 'American' feelings and responses. At night we get a few laughs by listening to the English-language news reports from Peking--the announcers have a vocabulary range of about 35 words chief among them being 'lackey, stooge, reactionary, aggressor, imperialist, fascist, nazi, and Glorious Chairman...
Later he made his first two big recordings for Soul Records: "Pain in My Heart," and "These Arms of Mine." With these two hits, and a lot of "pap-pap--pap" movements, Redding began touring the big Eastern stops...