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...wants to, as in a glitteringly ironic piece called The Wearin' of the Green, Jim Plunkett can mount as savage an attack on his country's new nationalist ruling class as the most delirious Liffeyside rabble-rouser could croak for. When in another mood, as in a spine-stiffening tale of men ratting and fighting against Britain's unforgotten Black and Tans, he can brew the strong, peat-smoked stuff of Irish patriotism. But most of these stories, dealing with humble Dubliners, plead nothing more special than the heartbreak of man's own making. A clerk...
Emergencies are an old story to Du Pont. As a child, he sang in vaudeville with his mother. As a young man, he danced ballet. But his dancing career ended when he fell through a trap door in the Manhattan Opera House and fractured his spine. After doing the costumes for 64 Broadway shows, he went to work for Liebman on TV seven years ago at a starting salary of $50 a week (he now gets close to $500) and a costume budget per show of $250 (it now averages...
...those California bathing-suit manufacturers have reached a low with a gimmick "evening convertible" (swimsuits that can be transformed to evening dresses). The thought of dressing for evening in something I had worn bathing a few hours before, or even a week before, sends chills down my fashion-conscious spine...
...explanation is that jabbing a hypodermic into the muscle means cutting or tearing a number of nerves which then offer the virus particles a direct pathway to the brain or spine. This seems plausible because inoculations against other diseases, e.g., diphtheria, may trigger a polio infection even when no polio virus is introduced and the only common factor is the use of the needle...
...physically handicapped workers in good jobs since 1943, thoroughly tests each applicant for what he can do, then finds a job to fit. General Motors has the same type of system at its Dayton, Ohio Frigidaire plant. For example, an ex-punch-press operator who got tuberculosis of the spine checks for leaks in refrigerator units passing through a tank of water, a job that does not require him to stoop or twist...