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Otis Dozier's themes-grasshoppers and bulls, Indian corn in the hot summer fields, a humid-swamp night scene-can be readily identified by any Texan. But his grasshopper is not just a laboratory specimen; it is a wondrous creature of heat and noise. When he painted Brahma Bull, Dozier did not try to provide a guessing game for Texas cattlemen adept at estimating values on the hoof, but to capture "the thing you always feel about a bull. He's the most powerful of the animal kingdom, and he seems to know it." In Place...
Miracles & Disappointments. In 1949 came the dramatized announcement (with before-and-after movies) from the Mayo Clinic of wondrous results with two hormones: ACTH and cortisone. Hopes for miracle cures soared, along with sales of the hormones. Gradually it has become clear that the hormones do not cure rheumatoid arthritis; they suppress its worst symptoms until-as is the way with this baffling disease-it may subside spontaneously after a few months. Victims of other forms of rheumatism, some of whom thought rheumatism was all one disease, were disappointed when the hormones proved of little use to them. In some...
...recent power shortage has allowed Morse to sing his "Government can do it better" chant with some effectiveness. Doug McKay's campaign is well-heeled. He has the almost unanimous editorial backing of Oregon's influential newspapers. And all through the state, he is sparking a wondrous revival of Republican precinct organization. But most political observers thought last week that McKay was still trailing Morse...
Reading frequently of the wondrous events that transpire, we hiked to the Yard one Monday, settled down in an easy chair and prepared to witness the Student Council in action...
...politicking, Herman won some patronage: the Pan Hellenic presidency in his senior year. Like his father, he joined the Phi Kappa debating society, but there was a difference in their styles. Campus audiences remembered Gene's chewing tobacco while he declaimed, pausing periodically to spit with wondrous accuracy into a nearby potbellied stove. They remember Herman because he always brought along a claque to touch off appropriate applause for his important points...