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...Shaw, 94, confided to a visitor: "I don't think I shall ever write anything more." Otherwise, said his doctors, their patient was doing well; he was allowed to leave his bed for 90 minutes a day to take wheelchair tours of his flower beds (see cut) and soak up the autumn...
...Soak your hair in olive oil, turban your head...
...Money. The results were startling. His serial number (which was printed on separately and had closed instead of open 45) was the only easily identifiable imperfection. Many counterfeiters soak their money in coffee and crumple it, to make it look older and its discrepancies harder to detect. Hugo's money looked-and felt-so much like the real thing that he always passed it in new, crisp, unwrinkled bills...
...test the old wives' theory that chilling and wet feet bring on colds, Andrewes persuaded some of his volunteers to soak themselves in hot baths, then stand around in a drafty passage for half an hour undried, wearing bathing suits. Then they put on wet socks. In the first test, the chilled volunteers caught the cold virus more readily than those who were kept snug and warm. But, said Dr. Andrewes, "we were foolish enough to repeat this experiment-with a contrary result." The only positive finding: chilling alone produces no colds...
...hunter posthumously appalled his huge public by admitting with a gay cackle that money had always been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about to stop). "I publish it," he explains, "because...