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...because it was dominated by the President's iron-willed mother, Sara, who bossed everybody with a benevolent despotism and frequently overruled Eleanor Roosevelt's decisions. Waiting to move into the White House during the bank panic in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt worried about getting enough money to scrape by. "[Franklin] smiled and said he thought we should be able to manage . . . I began to realize that there were certain things one need not worry about in the White House...
...mild amusement or dislike roundly. This is because it is culled from an excellent book and some people, finding the picture not up to the stratospheric standard of the book, thereupon turn violently against it. I, being merely a partisan and not a worshipper of Sam Clemens, could still scrape up a few chuckles...
...discover Gloria, a seductive salesgirl with a gold-plated larynx. Under their high-pressure salesmanship, Gloria's voice soon belongs to a radio network, a gilded Manhattan nightclub and the admiring U.S. public. But Gloria is not easy to manage. She is finally the victim of a shooting scrape that lands Maureen in the clink and then in a fadeout clinch with Douglas. It is never made entirely clear what all the shooting is about...
Hardening of the arteries can lead to gangrene-if the vessels become so clogged that too little blood gets through. From a plumber's-eye view, the solution looks obvious: scrape out whatever is blocking the vessels...
Last week, at the centennial celebration of Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Ivy reported his findings to date. He has used the hormone (his own chemists scrape it from the small intestines of freshly killed hogs) on 46 ulcer patients. Before treatment, they averaged a little over three months between ulcers. After treatment, their average symptom-free period rose to a little over ten months; two patients have gone four years, nine months without ulcers; 40% for 2½ years; 17% got no better. His work, Dr. Ivy says, is still "research in progress," not yet a proved cure...