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...minute composition began with a spine-tingling run on the clarinet, launched into a satire of suburban domestic strife with a jazzy Greek chorus, pantomime action and modern musical effects. Lennie's libretto, in which his unhappily married couple climaxed a day of frustration by going to an escapist movie, was a little too real to be funny. One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated...
...already dedicated to a lifetime of playing Dixie on the human spine, slim, soft-spoken Victor Meyers gave little thought to worldly matters during 1921; at that point he was about to graduate from the Riley School of Chiropractic in Washington, D.C., and to go forth seeking his first sacroiliac. Consequently, when a fraternity brother named Bert offered to wise him up, he listened appreciatively. "You ought to move to Virginia," said Bert. "They don't pay any federal taxes over there. You only have to pay 'em if you live in the District or work...
...cortisone: its benefits are not limited to the 10% of arthritis sufferers who have the rheumatoid form of the disease. Instead, it seems to work equally well in the far commoner osteoarthritis (also called degenerative arthritis), which usually comes with old age, and in the crippling arthritis of the spine...
...talked of as a future Prime Minister. But in years of trying to keep up with a mind that never tired, Stafford Cripps's frail body broke. He came down with tuberculosis of the spine and another ailment that his doctors described only as "rare and dangerous." In 1950 he retired to a sanitarium in the Swiss Alps. There, racked with pain, he waited, cool as always, for death. Last week, three days before Stafford Cripps's 63rd birthday, it came...
...dogs were near the end of the third and decisive race of the New England sled-dog championship at Jaffrey, N.H. last week. More important, they were close to chow time. And then, plunk in the middle of the snowy road, Driver Shearer saw a sight that chilled his spine: a cat, lazily sunning itself...