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Last week Cosmo announced a drastic remedy to cut costs and get on its feet. Publisher Harry M. Dunlap slashed its 14-man advertising sales staff, abolished mail subscriptions, pared soliciting of ads to the bone, and cut its ad rate from $5,000 a page to $2,100. Cosmo will concentrate on newsstand sales, hopes to boost them. Its new circulation guarantee: only...
Waldo's own research was concerned chiefly with the effect of hormones and other factors in the growth and development of bone structure...
...week, he was again taking cereal by spoon, holding his own bottle, and playing pat-a-cake. One-fourth of his brain still had only its natural covering of parchment-like dura mater. That would mean another operation soon. And eventually he would have to have a hard top (bone, metal or plastic) for his skull. But the University of Illinois doctors were already so encouraged by Rodney's progress that they had let his special nurses...
Died. Thomas Sugrue, 45, journalist and author (There Is a River, Starling of the White House), who was stricken by a rare form of arthritis in 1937, spent the rest of his life in the painful confines of a wheelchair; of complications following a bone operation; in Manhattan. His controversial 1952 book, A Catholic Speaks His Mind, was a biting criticism of U.S. Catholicism ("booming, aggressive, materialistic, socially ambitious, and inclined to use its membership as a paranoid pressure group...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings might well have called her latest novel "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Her farmer hero, Ase Linden, is a rawboned, ungainly man of probity without a mean bone in his 6 ft. 4 in. body. Born in a log cabin in the 18605, Ase dies in the age of flight, but his sad saga never gets off the ground...