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...Bone and Gristle. Fifty-year-old George is childless, disinclined to marry again. Once he was reported engaged to the Countess of Craven. The Countess' mother denied the rumor, but added: "I may state, however, that my daughter and the King of Greece have been close friends for about 15 years." A year before that, while Edward VIII was cruising in the Adriatic, King George invited him to dine with him-"alone." Cousin Edward arrived with Mrs. Simpson. A few days later Edward invited Cousin George to dine with him alone. George arrived with his friend...
...Greece had, for better or worse, stepped out of her comic-opera role. Greece was full in the path of huge events. In a debate at the Oxford Union during his exile George once said: "Instinctively I distrust the professor and the pedant. Give me a burly man of bone and gristle." This week the men of bone were...
Services and Cures. Each patient arriving at Memorial is routed into one of eleven highly specialized departments, each with its own staff. Largest number find their way into the Head & Neck Service, next largest go into the Breast Service. Others: Gynecological (womb cancers, etc.), Gastric (stomach), Genitourinary, Bone and Medical (the leukemias and lymphatic cancers). Best cure records (between 60 and 70%) run in lip, skin, womb and breast cancers. Worst (under 10%) are in prostate gland and the leukemias...
...raise at least $1,500,000 towards this deficit, over and above the $17,000,000 U. S. Protestants annually give to foreign missions. With this $1,500,000 they hope to keep Europe's missions open for a year, although budgets must be slashed to the bone...
...short life trying to experience everything in the world with all five senses at once, and to communicate the experience in a series of verbal landslides. Sometimes they piled up in masses of magnificent rhetoric: "And we? Made of our father's earth, blood of his blood, bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh-born like our father here to live and strive, here to win through or be defeated-here, like all the other men who went before us, not too nice or dainty for the uses of this earth-here to live, to suffer...