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...science, Siepmann believes, has given radio a second chance for health. The discovery of FM opens channels for 3,500 to 5,000 new stations, which should force improvement through competition alone. To merit this second chance, says he, radio should try some voluntary reforms. Then Siepmann suggests a potion of his own concocting: a national listeners' advisory council representing the U.S. audience. Its job: minding radio's manners, reporting the industry's shortcomings...
...dark night in an even darker forest they could be seen stirring a black potion made up of vouchers, pay receipts, money requisitions, cash books (etc.) and a magic liquid. This they managed to slip to the pretty, but not too pretty, intelligent but not too intelligent wife of the handsome young CPA in the form of a cooling daquirl cocktail...
...perhaps you have noticed, some of the instructors at the School really have a keen sense of humor. This is borne out by the story one officer tells of his experiments in mixing drinks. Recently he came up with a particularly lethal potion as is evidenced by the name he gave it: "My Heart Stood Still...
They drill after sundown in small groups, grimly determined to pivot smartly on the command of "Squads right." They swallow their bitterest potion-barrack life, bunk to bunk-without a murmur on the invasion of their privacy. (One WAAC did use her weekend liberty two weeks after induction to take a large double room in the Fort Des Moines Hotel and sit happily alone in the middle of it.) For four hours a day, for a full day and a half at week's end the WAACs can do what they please. When the study hall closes...
...neuroses, was the same: several hundred patients gathered three times a week at his clinic, lined up before a "cocktail window," received a brownish liquid in a paper cup. The mixture was called A.T.O.P., for reasons unknown, and contained the powerful drugs chloral hydrate, bromides, digitalis. After drinking this potion (which often made them giddy, set them a-warbling), patients proceeded in line to "treatment" by Dr. Cowles. New patients were examined and interviewed by two of Dr. Cowles's non-medico assistants. Placing one hand against the patient's stomach, the examiner grasped the bridge...