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...Thumb-sucking is a hotly controversial subject. Most psychologists believe (and most dentists strongly disagree) that the danger of mental damage in breaking a child of the habit is greater than the danger of dental damage from allowing it. The experts' quarrel leaves the mother in a dilemma...
Died. Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin, 53, junk dealer's son who became Al Capone's chief "collector" in Chicago during Prohibition, later teamed up with Jacob ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik in the red-light and gambling rackets; after long illness; in Chicago...
Three years of TV experience have given Sullivan only one rule of thumb: always have one act that will appeal to children. For the rest, he says: "I get the best acts I can, keep them as short as I can, and get myself the hell off the stage...
Every college has its complement of social and intellectual refugees who hide behind their clubs or their esotery of their cynicism and thumb down their noses at the influences that would make them educated. In a sense, these people are better prepared for the "realities of life" than their educated classmates, for the world in which they will assume responsibilities and make effective decisions puts a premium on absolutes of belief and action that often conflict with the educated attitude...
Brought in from the garden for the show, Laurens' curvy nudes looked rather like stones worn by the sea's, thumb into bland symbols for human flesh and frame. His figures were perfectly innocent of erotic detail, had none of the heavy grossness of an Epstein. They just showed a good-natured man's happy eye, a sculptor's firm hand...