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...Sniff the Gas. In Carbon Dioxide Therapy (Charles C. Thomas; $5), Psychiatrist Meduna claims to have a possible answer: a few sniffs of the gas which puts the bubbles in soda water. This, according to Dr. Meduna, may make psychoanalysis unnecessary. And, he contends, it is wonderfully effective for anxiety, inferiority complexes and homosexuality, or such psychosomatic complaints as spastic colon, frigidity, impotence and stuttering...
...much of the advertising themselves: each time their talents burst into flower they let off such chesty bugle notes of self-satisfaction that only the coldest, boldest critic dares to play deaf. But there are other good writers who bloom in silence, leaving it to the critics to sniff them out, though it may take years to place them in their proper niches...
...Washington hotels and in corridors of Government buildings were faces that looked familiar. Such World War II bigwheels as Donald Nelson, Charles (G.E.) Wilson and Henry Kaiser were back in town to sniff the air and find out what came next. Some offered to get back in harness as $1-a-year men but found that things hadn't gone that...
...TIME was much too highhanded. On second sniff, Poet Rimbaud gives off a perverse, poetic and powerfully significant odor...
...house in 1921 and reached the top four years ago when his older brother, Adolphus, the company president, died of cancer. A barrel-chested World War II colonel, "Gussie" Busch, now 51, is a throwback to Grandfather Adolphus. He has a shrewd eye for horses, a nose that can sniff the quality of hops, and he likes nothing better than the periodic Schlachtfeste at which the family, clad in Bavarian costumes, consumes quantities of sausages, pork cuts and ribs washed down with Budweiser...