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...Nathan Hirschberg, a Manhattan attorney, testified in his wife's suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk...
Doctors have long believed that the polio virus creeps along the nerves, on its way to destroying the nerve cells. Last week, for the first time, the virus was caught in the act. Drs. Eduard De Rober-tis and Francis Otto Schmidt of M.I.T. showed a Toronto convention of the Electron Microscope Society of America some remarkable pictures of the polio virus marching in orderly files along a nerve fiber...
...know deep inside tis it's an awful...
...compared to some that the rockbound, conservative Bank of New York has had since it was founded by Alexander Hamilton. It was the first bank in the then small (pop. 23,000) city of New York. Its immediate success brought two more banks-and worries-for Banker Hamilton. "'Tis impossible," he wrote in 1791, "but that three great banks in one city must raise such a mass of artificial credit as must endanger every one of them, and do harm in every view...
...lord at least the band is better, isn't it George! He wished he hadn't said that again and again. Maybe the band wasn't really so good and it sounded like the Ivy League Album all the time anyway. Indifferent or not-that is the question. Whether tis nobler with subsidize or lily-white Bingham. God I feel awful, what's the matter with me today! It must be the game. Vag realized he had been talking to the girl and now he said, well, let's decide where we'll go to George's or to George...