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...donkey saints with the heads of pigs. "Although I am not very clerical," says he, "I do not go so far." Merida, who lives in Mexico City, and Cantú, who plans to return there soon, both hope that Mexico's President Avila Camacho will be partial to non-political Mexican art. Says non-political Artist Merida: "Painting makes its own politics, the artist doesn't need to mind politics. It is the land that speaks through my canvases, whether they are representative or abstract...
...patient has to do is avoid it. If it is a wind-borne pollen that cannot be escaped, the patient may try "desensitization" treatment, which involves injecting very small quantities of the allergenic protein. How or why desensitization works is unknown. The benefits of desensitization are temporary and partial, though the degree of relief may seem wonderful to a sufferer. Treatments must be repeated every year. Sometimes allergies subside spontaneously, but there is no medical cure...
From Washington came hints of a partial solution. The U. S. Maritime Commission was mulling a swap of trade routes: let U. S. merchantmen carry British traffic in the Pacific, so that British ships could be transferred to the Atlantic...
...scrimmaged the Junior Olympics in an informal match and came out on the short end of a 6 to 4 count. However, since in a similar encounter before vacation they submitted to a 5 to 0 pasting, it would seem that the trip to Princeton had at least paid partial dividends...
...White House musicales," Mrs. Roosevelt is partial to Americans, likes programs that interlard well-known artists with entertainers like Whistler Robert MacGimsey, Character Sketcher Mollie A. Best, Singing Satirist Vandy Cape. Encores are given only if Mrs. Roosevelt signals. Artists are asked not to brag much in the press about their White House dates...