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...unfavorable elements on Monday night to welcome George back to his "home town" in the revival of George M. Cohan's comedy, "The Song and Dance Man," at the Copley theatre. The members of the Copley company supported him adequately enough, and only occasional slips in the dialogue bore out his statement in curtain speech that the performance was studied and staged in the short space of five days...
...shining and great clouds trundle away or crumble in the blue like fallen ramparts. A housewife wipes her red hands upon an apron and smiles down at the first bewildering crocus. Horses in the shafts steam and try to forget their winter coats. Old gentlemen on Marl bore Street hang up their Chesterfields and derbies. Little boys go shouting into a tumbled house and little girls wear blue...
...Rochester, N. Y. a quiet old lady who dresses mostly in black was told that her son had become President. ''I am very happy to hear the news," said Mrs. Catherine Wheelwright. She bore Eamon de Valera where Manhattan's Chrysler Building stands today. The President's father (a Spaniard) is dead and so is his stepfather, Mr. Wheelwright. Several times Eamon de Valera has visited his old mother in Rochester...
...esophagoscope, like Dr. Jackson's famed bronchoscope, is essentially a narrow-bored tube. The bronchoscope goes down the windpipe into the lungs. The esophagoscope goes down the gullet. Dr. Jackson developed both after he got the initial idea from two German professors. They derived their method from sword-swallowers. Jugglers learned long, long ago that by throwing their heads far back and depressing their tongues, their opened mouths were brought into a direct line with their straightened gullets. By getting his patients to do the same, the late Dr. Alfred Kirstein found that he could see far down...
...make the tax as broad and impartial as possible, the Ways & Means Committee talked of exempting from its provisions only raw or unprocessed food, bread, milk, farm seeds, fertilizer, perhaps the cheapest kind of clothing. The great merit of such a tax. it was argued, was that it bore down on all industries alike. Unlike the excise taxes proposed for automobiles, phonographs, radios, telephones, et al., it did not squeeze just a few large enterprises. It also represented a nice legislative compromise between those who objected to a general retail sales tax because that would hit the people directly...