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...undergraduate settles in his chair, he will hear Faculty members, record programs, mostly classical, concerts, from the Pierian, Glee Club, and Stradivarius Quartet. Argument, with forums. Drama, with radio plays. And sideline, ringside, poolside chatter till his spine prickles...
...United Artists). To hear a movie called a "class picture" sends a chill down the hardened cinemaddict's spine. "Class picture" is a trade term for films with a better than average cast, a resolutely esthetic director, and uplift. They are aimed at people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they...
Half-century ago, a lush-bearded storekeeper in What Cheer, Iowa developed a passion for collecting goldfish bones. From fishbones, Daniel David Palmer turned to human vertebrae and founded the spine-tickling business of chiropractic. Today chiropractic is a $70,000,000-a-year industry, with 20,000 practitioners in 44 States legally manipulating everything from colds to high blood pressure. Instead of the old-fashioned manhandling of "Fish" Palmer, modern chiropractors use a glittering variety of labor-saving devices called by such impressive names as "Neurocalcograph," "Electroencephalomentimpograph," "Neurotempometer...
Causes for backache include occupations which keep the worker in strained positions for long periods, persistent standing and sitting in slouched attitudes, infections of the spine which eat away bone material, and acute infection in other parts of the body which produce pain in the hollow of the back...
...after first symptoms). Most popular form of exercise is warm water swimming, skillfully taught at President Roosevelt's "other home": Warm Springs, Ga. Less publicized, but requiring less equipment and equally effective is stimulation of muscle contraction by electric current. A large, "indifferent" electrode is placed over the spine, and a smaller, "active" one over a paralyzed muscle. The current is turned on and the muscle "tickled" six to ten times a minute. Gradually, the number of muscle contractions can be raised to the normal number of 30 or 40 a minute for a period of three minutes. Such...