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Last week, in a dimly lit room in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, a crowd of robust young women gathered around a bubbling sitz bath, hidebound corsets, steel braces. Some bent over a baby kicking mightily in a whirlpool bathtub (Currence Underwater Therapy Tank). The place looked like a medieval torture chamber, but the young women meant no harm: they were only members of the American Physiotherapy Association, holding their 19th annual convention...
...years, lean, bald, stubble-lipped Arnaldo Cortesi was a correspondent for the New York Times in Rome. Son of a robust, retired Italian journalist (who had for 29 years been head of the Associated Press bureau in Rome) and a Boston mother, Cortesi was perfectly equipped to tell U. S. citizens about Mussolini's Italy...
Torrid Zone abounds in such robust action, in rowdy wisecracks by the men, catty wisecracks by the girls, skirmishes with a broad-minded bandit (George Tobias), falsetto funny business by Andy Devine, much sweltering and sweating by Messrs. Cagney and O'Brien. Oomph Girl Sheridan is never affected by the heat. She hops on & off moving banana trains, gets thrown in & out of jail, never even needs to change her one immaculate dress...
Ordinarily, Proprietor Aldrich, now 70, white-haired and robust, hangs out the "No Vacancy" sign before 9 p.m. each night during the Florida tourist season. His guests, middle-class Americans from all over the U. S., pay $1.50 to $3 for a cottage for two, $2.50 to $5 for a double cottage for four - in advance. Trailer fees are 50? for a plot and electricity. Meals at the restaurant, which features Southern fried chicken and pecan waffles, have a 75? top. Motor Courier Aldrich is proud of his big repeat business, says many a doctor, lawyer, U. S. Government worker...
First issue of the Tribune, subtitled "The People's Paper," ran to 32 pages. Next day it settled down to 16 pages, one afternoon appeared with a scant ten. Inside were plenty of robust comics (Superman, Charlie Chan. Tarzan), such columnists as Eleanor Roosevelt. Raymond Clapper, Hugh Johnson...