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...known that he is no longer taking weekly an anticoagulant drug, part of the follow-up therapy of his Sept. 24, 1955 heart attack. Prescribed to retard bloodclotting, the drug had been given three times a week at first, was cut down slowly until a month ago, when Patient Eisenhower was found to need no further regular medication...
Steamed-Up Antics. The Metropole's regular musicians like their job, partly because the work is steady and requires no traveling, partly because the Dixieland market has leveled off. The pay? "Ah," growls Red Allen happily, "the Metropole don't retard on the loot." Nor do the boys retard on the noise. Whatever the number, the decibel is mightier than the dolce. Dixieland's adolescent nights, with their soulful solos, apparently are lost in the dim past, now to be replaced mostly by steamed-up, middle-aged antics. When the two bands get together...
...rain which fell during the first part of the race did little to retard the runners. Chrisman's urge to keep himself physically and mentally fit. Anderson didn't really know why he entered...
...rain which fell during the first part of the race did little to retard the runners. Chrisman said it made his uniform slightly uncomfortable, but Pates and Anderson felt it did them a service by cooling them down. "It rained hard enough to get wet, but not hard enough to get a drink." Childs complained after ward...
...occasionally on eyewitness accounts by those who have left the royal household. On all such journalistic works the palace frowns. Last year, after an ex-valet to the Duke of Edinburgh wrote for the Sunday Pictorial that Philip wears long underwear in the winter, and uses a lotion to retard the thinning of his hair, Press Secretary Colville put his foot down. To the British Press Council went a stern note: "You will, I am sure, readily agree that the Queen is entitled to expect that her family will attain the privacy at home which all other families are entitled...