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...surgeon and psychoanalyst, has some ideas on curing warts that might have come right out of the Mark Twain pharmacopoeia. In the issue of Lancet that reached the U.S. last week, Inman told of a 13 -year-old boy who came to him with ten warts on his thumb. Dr. Inman told him to touch the tip of his tongue to each wart every morning because saliva is peculiarly poisonous to warts, but not to tell anybody. The warts went away...
Harry Truman had certainly stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum. From being a fading and futile minority President he had suddenly appeared in a new and more popular guise as an effective rabble-rouser. It remained to be seen whether the U.S. would agree with him that he was really a good...
Delegates & Bosses. By last week the preliminaries for this year's conventions were almost over. The National Committees had picked the place and the date (Republicans, who traditionally meet first, on June 21; Democrats on July 12), had apportioned convention delegates among the states. The rule of thumb: each state sends two delegates for each Representative and each Senator in Congress.† Republicans give a bonus of three delegates to those states which voted Republican in 1944 or 1946; Democrats give a bonus of four. The District of Columbia, territories and possessions get two to six delegates each. Total...
...maintain the seductiveness of his first impression, Bonnard painted from memory, not from nature. A French critic once provided a vivid picture of Bonnard's working methods: "With four thumb tacks he had pinned a canvas, lightly tinted with ocher, to the dining-room wall. During the first few days he would glance from time to time, as he painted, at a sketch on a piece of paper twice the size of one's hand ... At first, I could not identify the subject. Did I have before me a landscape or a seascape...
...local bowling greens is a meet point. Last year's team, while unimpressive in overall performance, managed to finish second in League play. Yale's Frank Quinn was the stopper last year; if the Varsity gets to him in June with the rest of the league safely under its thumb, all may be well...