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EMBARKING for the Balaklava of the Chicago stockyards, the foresighted Democratic delegate would ideally-and intelligently-go equipped with: goggles (to protect the eyes from tear gas and Mace), cyclist's crash helmet (from billy clubs, bricks, etc.), flak jacket (from snipers), Vaseline (from Mace), Mace (from rioters), washcloth (from tear gas), bug bomb (to kill the flies that infest the amphitheatre from nearby stockyard dunghills), folding bicycle (there is a cab strike), roller skates (carpet tacks scattered on the streets by the demonstrators may decommission the bike), wire cutters (in case delegate is trapped inside the amphitheatre...
...Grant's team of physiatrists hit upon ice massage as the way to induce a deep chill. As they developed their technique, the medics began to use half-pound chunks of ice, frozen in cans, held in a washcloth. Patients complained of an uncomfortable chill, then of a burning sensation, then of an ache, but finally they reported a blessed numbness and easing of pain. If the injury was in a part of an arm or leg that could be dipped in water, it was dunked, then ice cubes were dropped into the water until the cycle of discomfort...
...less. Lifting the title of the old Jimmy Stewart movie, NBC has turned Smith into a "dip me in butter and fry me for a catfish" type, giving the role to Fess Parker. It maybe-to borrow a line from its own dialogue-"in more hot water than a washcloth." Another old movie, Going My Way, is now a TV series (ABC), with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll doing nicely as Father Bing Crosby and Father Barry Fitzgerald. In other seasons, a cassock opera like this one might have stood out like a High Mass in the Copacabana...
Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, visiting her daughter, Princess Juliana, went shopping in little Lee, Mass. "Good morning, Queen," said the drugstore man. The ruler from the land where people scrub their homes with soap & water bought a sponge. "I am old-fashioned," she explained. "Everybody else uses a washcloth, but I like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved...