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...committee of the Times Mirror Co. (which publishes the Los Angeles Times), began three weeks ago. "The Captain," ailing at 79, is anxious to divest himself of the paper, and Chandler is anxious to buy, to the extent of a reported $75 million worth of Times Mirror stock. The rub: Minority Stockholders Joseph Albright (Newsday's Washington bureau chief) and Alice Albright Hoge, the heirs of Mrs. Guggenheim (Alicia Patterson), were balking. At Newsday itself, at least 124 reporters and editors signed a petition protesting the sale...
Years have passed, and people have been born, and people have died, and now as I sit here, typewriter in hand. I rub my toes lovingly up against the sides of my latest pair of sneaks. The sad thing is that the blue strips on the toes have fallen off. But it's okay, because I bronzed them...
Alexander's wide-eyed but not very sensitive view provides a short crarri course on the ways men have discovered to dehumanize themselves. For a start, Maclnnes and young Alexander rub the reader's nose in the flog-grog-and-vomit life of the British seaman...
...necessary, or even effective? Neither, says Dr. Thomas Charles Dann, medical officer of the University College of Swansea in Wales. The usual, perfunctory five-second swabbing of the skin is far too brief for any of the antiseptics used to sterilize the area. As proof that this "routine rub is rubbish," Dann reports in the Lancet that more than 5,000 injections have been given in the past six years at the Swansea medical center without the preshot cleansing. No infections have developed...
...forced her frustrated trainers to rub her horse's legs with cold cream made by her company...