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Last week gangling, spectacled Phumiphon was on the Red Sea in the steamship Selandia, with his pretty fiancée, 17-year-old Siamese Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara at his side. In Bangkok's downtown dance halls, where Siam's hepcats curve their fingers backward and dance the rumwong, the hit of the week was a song composed by the royal jitterbug Phumiphon himself...
Standard cinema technique is to use only one camera, which is dollied forward or backward for each different shot. The consequent waste of time and continuous changes of lighting have run the cost of film far beyond the cost of a "live" telecast. Even the cheapest B movie costs upwards of $100,000, and it takes about 60 minutes of working time to produce one minute of film...
...Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, the National Association of Colored Women. Miss Paul and her cohorts rapped on Senate doors, buttonholed Senators. Their weapons were whatever came to hand-documents, dialectics, plain talk and implied political threats. Some, like Ernestine Bellamy, distant relative of Edward (Looking Backward) Bellamy, splendidly flashed the most invincible feminine weapon...
...denned it, called for nothing less than "a vast Reformation in the world's ways of earning its living." Europe would have to drop its notion that the American concept of "service as the path to profit" is "either sheer folly or gross hypocrisy." The world's backward areas needed a good deal more than American know-how and vague talk about Point 4. The U.S. had to export the American concept of business...
...Looking backward last week over the progress of medicine in the first half of the 20th Century, both the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal found reasons for cheering. But on one point they differed sharply. Said the A.M.A. Journal: "Operations formerly undreamed of are now everyday occurrences." On the contrary, said British Surgeon Geoffrey Jefferson: "There is not much that we do today that surgeons were not doing [in 1900]; we do things better and more often . . . We have new aids that they were denied"-such as wound-healing drugs and better anesthetics...