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...officially when the massed ships of the Portuguese Navy, an American squadron and a Brazilian warship joined in a series of 21-gun salutes that shattered windows throughout the Lisbon harbor district. Then followed a solemn Te Deum in the Lisbon Cathedral with the Knights of Malta in their scarlet tunics, Army and Navy officials in dress uniform, city fathers in robes of office, and the gold-braided Diplomatic Corps carefully arranged to keep belligerent envoys apart. President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona shared prominence in the Cathedral with General Francisco Jose Pinto, special envoy from onetime colony Brazil...
...next six years, while living at times in desperate poverty, he tried doses of well-known drugs on his family and friends. Belladonna, he discovered, produced fever and red eruptions in healthy persons; he tried it on scarlet fever and it drove away the disease. Nux vomica paralyzed the chest muscles; he fed his patients tiny doses to check asthma. Arnica, which in overdoses brought on belly aches, he used in small doses to cure diarrhea. After "proving" scores of drugs, Hahnemann broadcast his famed principle of homeopathy (Greek, homoios, like, and pathos, disease): Similia similibus curentur. (Like should...
Generation ago, physicians spent most of their time rushing around to sick babies. Today, with scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles under control, most of their patients are oldsters. Although more than 30,000,000 persons in the U. S. are over 45, few doctors really know how the process of aging changes the human body. Last week in the New York Academy of Medicine, Cardiologist Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, Neurologist Foster Kennedy of Cornell sounded off at a symposium on old hearts, old brains...
...work in Kostelanetz's clarinet section. Only original note is the hot clarinet against a string background. But even this Shaw did three years ago with his first band (see "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" for an example. Brunswick.), so that once again Mr. Shaw gets the scarlet covered roll of Scott's. The tunes are some Mexican ditties that weren't too sharp either before or after recording...
...behold, tremendous to hear is a military band-as every schoolboy knows to his marrow. Oldest and most famed of all such U. S. bands is the U. S. Marine Band. Founded in 1798, the "Marines" have played at every inauguration since Thomas Jefferson's day. Glorious in scarlet uniforms, the band plays Hail to the Chief every time the President appears at a big state shindig...