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...Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) have such a long trunk and short legs, walk so badly? To Paris Pediatrician Gaston Levy, the Moulin Rouge explanation (bone fractures at the ages of 13 and 14) is silly. His own "highly probable hypothesis'': the artist suffered from polyepiphyseal dysplasia, or defects at the bone ends, where growth takes place. This fitted the known facts that Toulouse-Lautrec appeared normal as an infant, had poor growth from the age of nine, thereafter had difficulty getting up from a chair, and walked in a clumsy duck waddle...
...stock now worth $750,000. Two insiders invested $12,012 in stock now priced at $3,200,000. Quebec Natural Gas Co., another distributor, made $32.2 million in paper profits, and again the big chunk went to insiders. By contrast, the Alberta government thoroughly policed the Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co., and waitresses and farm hands all got a share of profits that now total $45.9 million...
Problems & Precedent. .Talmadge's stem-winding oratory was deflated by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, whose Middle Eastern trip last month made him a firmer advocate of Eisenhower foreign policy. "If one wishes to engage in finding very little blisters on the trunk of the great oak tree," said Democrat Humphrey, "it is possible to make it appear that the oak is almost ready to collapse, or that it never should have been a tree in the first place. But if one considers the totality of the program and does not concentrate on a little error here...
...Radcliffe girl packs her last trunk and wonders if the way her section man said good-bye means that he'll call her up that evening. And an alumnus walks into the Yard, watches the workmen moving lumber, the Yardling carrying his bag on his shoulder, the girl sitting on the steps of the library, and he feels detached from Harvard, and wonders if everything has changed, or nothing...
...imported transportation mania is the cult of the little car. The little car can be anything from an Austin to a Renault or Volkswagen (never a Hillman Minx, of course); it has unusual features, such as the engine being in back (which makes for question-provoking louvres where the trunk lid should be), or turn signals that point out from the door posts instead of blinking from the rear fenders, lending a quaint, Old World flavor. The real virtue of the little car, of course, lies just in its being little. The great amount of crowding necessary, and the uncomfortableness...