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Although all the men are now sergeants, the question of rank has long been a bone of contention between the Army band and the Navy and Marine bands. The latter had always had all their men in the first three grades. During the war the Army band had no trouble in finding skilled musicians, but with the onset of rapid demobilization it was found necessary to give the increase in ratings in order to keep the talented men they had acquired...
French Fashion. The17th Century was the Golden Age of the enema, or clyster as it was then called. The crude instruments of yesteryear-tubes of bone or wood attached to animal bladders or silk bags-were replaced by a formidable piston-&-cylinder device. An apothecary or doctor's assistant, marching through the streets with a clyster tube on his shoulder (see cut), became a common sight, as a mania for enemas swept France...
McDermand makes it sound worth going after. He writes of lonely, bone-chilling nights, of the joys of casting, and of trout for breakfast. Up above California's timber line there is just enough brush to shade the water and yet not enough to tangle a backcast. Some of the rock-bound lakes have names like Evolution, some have no names, some have no fish. But mostly they are chockfull of golden trout dying of old age for lack of fishermen...
...these earliest Americans-Folsom Man, Sandia Man, Cochise Man-not a single bone has yet been found. But weapons, gnawed animal bones and camp sites indicate his existence beyond dispute. The first archeologist to find the authentic bones of a Pleistocene American will be the most famous digger in the Western Hemisphere...
Spleen Serum. The serum is extracted from the blood of horses which have been injected with spleen cells and bone marrow from young, healthy persons who have died by accident. "It is not an elixir of long life," insisted Bogomolets last week, "but something that fights the enemies of longer life-cancer and high blood pressure." (It is too potent for some people, and Dr. Bogomolets himself is one of those who cannot be treated: his heart is too weak for an ACS fillip...