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...Crown, the titular head of their Government is the King's representative, the Governor General. Last year, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Canada, they arranged that the next occupants of Rideau Hall, the Governor General's mansion, should be someone who could tighten the allegiance to the Crown-preferably Royalty. After the death of popular Baron Tweedsmuir, the Duke of Devonshire turned down the job. Last April it was given to Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, who is known to his elder sister. Queen Mary, as "Algie...
...Shorell claims that his operation is unique, for most plastic surgeons, he says, only tighten skin, pay little attention to sagging muscles, thus leave their patients with a masklike expression. Face-lifting is done under a local anesthetic, lasts about an hour and a half, is practically bloodless. Patients usually leave the hospital in four days, some of them wearing hats with veils or scarves tied under the chin to hide the scars. Only painful part of the operation is the bill, which may run anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000, depending on what a patient...
When the delicate artery branches, or arterioles, tighten and dam up the flow of blood in the main arteries, this pressure is greatly increased. Some causes of hypertension : overactivity of the thyroid gland, emotional disturbances, an abnormally large volume of circulating blood, toxemias of pregnancy. Normal blood pressure increases with age, ranges from no to 135 for a normal adult male.* High blood pressure may climb...
Reason for the slide was the news that Britain would tighten her controls over foreign exchange. Late last month her new rules went into effect. No Briton can now export rubber, tin, Scotch whiskey, jute or furs to the U. S. unless he is paid either 1) in dollars, or 2) in sterling bought at the official Norman rate. Since these products are an important share of British ex ports to the U. S., practically dominate the U. S. supply for them, many a U. S. importer had no further use for free sterling, deserted the Black Bourse...
...huge new spy hunt involves checking up on domestic servants, railroad, shipyard and hospital employes; on aliens who have started nightclubs in London's West End, where service men on leave, their tongues loosened on "bottle parties," are prone to speak too freely. As an example to tighten British tongues and defeat the spy system from that end, a court-martial in London last week deprived an unnamed naval officer of his commission for "careless talk...