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Wiren: Serenade for Strings, Op. I I (Stockholm Radio Orchestra, conducted by Stig Westerberg; London). An appealing piece dating from 1937 by one of Sweden's standout composers. Like a good many other Scandinavian efforts. Dag Wiren's work avoids blatant modernity, but gets a fresh, airy effect by blending forthright melodic warmth with spicy dashes of dissonance...
...sold over the druggist's counter, originally as a remedy for intestinal worms and the itch (scabies). Since its anti-alcoholism qualities were discovered, Sweden has required a doctor's prescription for its Swedish equivalent, Abstinyl, to discourage dangerous experimenting by pranksters and well-meaning wives. Dr. Stig Hammergen has warned the Stockholm Woman's Medical Society that a mixture of Abstinyl and alcohol can kill people with weak hearts...
...intestines is one of the most feared complications of TB of the lungs. The newest hope is eight-year-old PAS (for para-amino-salicylic acid). A highly optimistic report of its use by two Swedish doctors appeared in the Swedish medical journal Laekartidningen. Drs. Bo Carstensen and Stig Sjoelin reported trying PAS on 22 men & women whose chances were "hopeless or dubious" by ordinary methods of treatment. After two to four weeks' treatment (five to 14 grams of PAS a day) all 22 were "completely or almost completely" cured of abdominal symptoms. Pain disappeared completely. The general condition...
...Torment, made in Sweden, the central character is a fine-minded, troubled boy in his late teens (Alf Kjellin). The villain is a pathologically cruel Latin teacher (Stig Jarrel). The provocatress of disaster is a loose girl of the town (Mai Zetterling) with whom the boy becomes involved, partly through sexual infatuation. But he is also concerned over her terror of a pitiless lover whom she dares not name but who, it becomes more & more obvious, is the sick teacher. Commencement time is approaching. The boy becomes ever less capable of study, ever more painfully the victim...
...James H. McIntosh, senior partner of the Manhattan firm of Alexander & Green and counsel for Bankers Trust. With learned dignity he made his argument and, in spite of apparent difficulty in pronouncing sibilant words, came to his peroration: "If you hold this resolution Constitutional, Congress will have put a stig-" at that point his false teeth popped clean out of his mouth. He grabbed his plate, just as it reached the green baize table, shoved it back in his mouth, continued "stigma on the good name of the country...