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...Union Committee's first meeting tomorrow evening members of the group will have to "start from scratch," according to Bradford, in "a major job of reorganizing Union activities, dormant since the beginning...
...late second husband Paul Owen Richmond), lost her purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...
Curbed, not Cured. But diabetes, though controllable, is still neither preventable nor curable, and the tendency to diabetes has been found to be hereditary. No sure way is known to halt deterioration of a diabetic's blood vessels, often eventual hardening of his arteries. Sometimes the smallest scratch may still mean gangrene. Though insulin has sent the younger (under 40) diabetic's life expectancy soaring, the overall death rate has actually increased during the insulin era: diabetes in 1920 caused 1.4% of all U.S. deaths, now causes 2.5%.* Most diabeticians still feel much as Banting did when...
Unlike other Crimson coaches, whose main problem is to weed the most promising candidates from a wealth of material, Mikkola is this term virtually stating from scratch. Cross country has been dormant here since 1942 when the Crimson harriers climaxed a record season by downing Yale and Princeton in a triangular meet before folding up shop for the duration...
...training of a paraplegic starts almost from scratch. David could not dress himself or put on braces without help, could barely sit erect. But after six weeks of push-ups and other exercises to strengthen arms, shoulders and abdominal muscles, he was ready to begin crutch work. To walk, he had to learn to swing his body by gravity, like a pendulum. But learning to walk is only part of it. For a paraplegic, getting in & out of a chair or opening a door is a major undertaking, made up of many intricate, precisely timed movements which take weeks...