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...equally unnecessary laxatives. While the nation's medical centers spend $111 million seeking causes and cures for cancer, the public will shoot $50 million for quack cancer remedies. With arthritis and rheumatism the comparison is still worse: $6,500,000 for legitimate research, but $250 million wasted on worthless treatments...
Callaghan's hero is Sam Raymond, a high-priced photographer who despises his craft and yearns to be, naturally, a painter. At 39, he has decided that his canvases are worthless and his life pointless. He flies to Rome to do a picture story on the dying Pope Pius for a Canadian weekly, and there, wandering about late at night, meets a drunken, beautiful girl. Sam asks directions of her, and she drifts on. But later, though he did but see her lurching by, Sam realizes that he is in love. He decides to find the girl and salvage...
trumpery. n. worthless nonsense. MUMBO-JUMBO. TWADDLE, "a piece of propaganda trumpery...
...reply to this is that an organization which found itself in a crucial position when the post of its chief administrative officer fell vacant is utterly worthless." Then he proceeded to his next point, blithely ignoring the obvious fact that the only reason for the U.N.'s "crucial position" is the wrecking tactics of Russia itself...
...ALFRED FRIENDLY, 49, managing editor of the Washington Post, who considers most journalism courses worthless, accuses journalism schools of training students in the same way that "the department of home economics teaches the fu ture dietitian...