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...into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about the back-bone of Chick's band...
...Cushing's great contributions to surgery was his operation for removal of tumors rooted in the nerve of hearing. Turning down a flap of muscles at the back of the neck, the surgeon cuts out a piece of bone at the base of the skull, gently pushes aside the soft cerebellum in order to bare the acoustic nerve. After removing the tumor he resettles the cerebellum, tightly stitches down the tough flap of neck muscle. The bone is not replaced, for the muscle-patch is strong enough to protect the patient from injury. The entire operation is performed under...
...Homer Bone figured that such absurdities could be eliminated, would affect few people anyhow. For 1937, only 48 taxpayers reported net incomes of between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000; only one of above $5,000,000. But Bone & Associates proposed to lower the personal exemption for single persons from $1,000 to $500, for married persons from $2,500 to $1,000, reduce allowances for dependents from $400 to $100, up the basic tax from 4% to 6%. Proposed takings from sample taxable net incomes (before State taxes): $60 from $1,000, $860 from...
...visitors saw a 9 by 9 by 16 in. leaden casket, graven with abbreviations unmistakably referring to "Cristoval Colon, Almirante" (see cut). Inside it when last opened were once-human bone & dust, a bullet presumably fired into Columbus during some fracas before he sailed for the New World...
...guest last fortnight of the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. In Ciudad Trujillo (the General's new name for the venerable city of Santo Domingo), the U. S. delegation looked upon 1) a box (which remained unopened) containing a tiny heap of bone & dust billed as the true "last parts" of Christopher Columbus, and 2) the charm of Trujillo, who wants to improve his press relations...