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...many a U. S. citizen, the screaming headlines of the German smash through Belgium and down into France came like an unremitting, seven-day Orson Welles broadcast of an invasion from Mars...
...Norway, indomitable old King Haakon, a refugee within his own country, broadcast another appeal to his people to resist, gave no sign that he would flee abroad...
...tried it on scarlet fever and it drove away the disease. Nux vomica paralyzed the chest muscles; he fed his patients tiny doses to check asthma. Arnica, which in overdoses brought on belly aches, he used in small doses to cure diarrhea. After "proving" scores of drugs, Hahnemann broadcast his famed principle of homeopathy (Greek, homoios, like, and pathos, disease): Similia similibus curentur. (Like should be cured by like.) In Hahnemann's day, doctors used remedies which were often more painful, some times more harmful, than the disease itself: drastic bloodletting for fevers, enormous doses of laudanum, heroic purges...
...Speech to Congress (see p. 18). For five minutes, those of Manhattan's radio audience who were tuned in to WHN heard, not the start of the President's speech, but an excerpt from an old recording. Reason: WHN engineers, fiddling around for the President's broadcast, tuned in on the private channel, recognized the familiar voice, did not discover their mistake until five minutes later when the same voice boomed: "Tomorrow is Labor...
First noticed some four months ago in a weekly broadcast by the CBS listening station which has kept track of him ever since, Ward was soon given three spots a week, rushed from Berlin to Copenhagen, back to Berlin. Ward speaks American and wisecracks American. Of the blackouts in Copenhagen month ago he cracked: "Here all is darker than the Republican mood after the November election. . . . The streets of Copenhagen are blacker than Father Divine." Of English reverses in Norway he remarked facetiously: "Charlie McCarthy's Bergen is the only one of that name not entirely encompassed by Germans...