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...stirred up much medical controversy in Europe with his practice of injecting and grafting animal cells to replace wornout human tissues...
...good old-fashioned sentiments like love and Christmas are so commercialized nowadays that many of the old saws seem rusty, if not wornout. One of these, "The gift without the giver is bare," has been heavily battered again this week, now that the Combined Charities Drive seems to have repudiated it so effectively...
...Wornout Horn. Germans and Austrians began to eye Americans with new respect, but the orchestra played through some hard months: Conductor Adler got his discharge; so did half of the orchestra at about the same time. It limped along, periodically hit by transfers and discharges...
...neither a musical comedy nor a sentimental ditty about fifty years of happy marriage. The play does concern itself with marriage, however, but only incidentally with as anniversary. Any further resemblance to its musical namesake ends with the opening curtain. Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields have taken a wornout family comedy theme and used it to glue together a formidable number of jokes about six, child psychology, and television. They have written a farcical Date with Judy, funnier than its television counterparts but a little pointless for two hours in the theatre...
...sponsored the nation's biggest forest reclamation project) and power development. Long an advocate of collaboration between states and Washington, D.C. on conservation and power, he favors regional projects, opposes the super, Fair-Deal-proposed Columbia Valley Administration because, unlike Tennessee, "the Columbia Basin is not a wornout valley where emergency measures must be invoked . . ." Eisenhower's campaign speeches echo McKay's demand for "orderly development watched over by people who live in and love the region...