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Nothing but Hope. The doctors are still deep in argument over possible substitutes for the wonder hormones ACTH and cortisone. A few Swedish, British and U.S. investigators claim wondrous results with desoxycorticosterone acetate ("DOCA," an adrenal hormone) and vitamin C injections given within a few minutes of each other. Others in the U.S. sing the praises of such hormones as 21-acetoxy-pregnenolone. None of these, said Drs. Hench and Kendall, have stood up under proper testing...
...Dick Simonton vowed that when he was grown up he would own one too. That time eventually came, but Simonton, by then 30 and a Los Angeles dispenser of Muzak, had to wait until the end of World War II to write to Germany for Welte's wondrous music rolls. The answer he got from the Welte Co. in 1948 sent him packing off to Germany himself...
Like the turtle, the bureaucrat, hunched up within the comfortable armor plate of civil-service regulations, seldom moves at a pace faster than a lumbering lurch. But head, neck and unwinking eye can zip out with wondrous speed-to snap at a taxpayer, look out a window at a parade, or sip a slow cup of coffee at the nearest Government cafeteria. Last week the Senate heard another little-noted fact about his living habits: he can, and frequently does, enjoy the equivalent of about ten weeks of paid vacation a year...
...manual work on any of the works on exhibition. His genius was in his head and active enough to keep 700 artisans, mostly Finns, busy in his St. Petersburg workrooms. The imperial court was not Fabergé's only customer: every millionaire in Russia clamored for his wondrous candlesticks and parasol handles. In time he produced enameled pigs for the court of King Chulalongkorn of Siam, Buddhas and bowls for his son, Rama VI, and a gold cigarette case which was presented to England's Queen Mary by the Maharaja of Bikanir. But his most ambitious work...
...Berkleys of Broadway. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers still make a wondrous dance team (TIME, April...