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...John Kurtzke and Louis Berlin jumped to no conclusions when a multiple sclerosis patient, treated with isoniazid for bed sores, began to speak so that they could again understand him. Instead, they tested isoniazid, the TB wonder drug, on 30 patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx. Three received no benefit, but 27 improved, and by a wider margin than previous M.S. patients who had been given other treatments. Most encouraging was the fact that four patients improved when they were given the drug and relapsed when it was stopped, then improved again when it was resumed. Eight...
Born. To Teresa Brewer, 23, tiny, leather-lunged jukebox songstress (Music! Music! Music!; Till I Waltz Again with You), and Bill Monahan, 27, music publisher: a third daughter, third child; in The Bronx. Name: Megan Colleen. Weight...
...production, which played, at the Barbizon Theatre, was picketed by members of the AFL Musicians' Union and the Stage Employees' Union. A two-night stand last year in Bronx school auditorium did not bring pickets, but failed to fill the house...
...hippos have waddled along Happy's slippery path into anonymity. In New York, at the Bronx Zoo, an exotic quartet of two pygmy hippos and a young hippo couple (Peter II and Phoebe) have kept the local journals happy. In the St. Louis Zoo, Harry, the resident hippopotamus, became famous overnight last summer for his aristocratic distemper. It all started when the Zoo decided it would repaint the cages. The work went smoothly until the painters began work on Harry's cage. A nonconformist, Harry never liked crowds, and he didn't like the painters, the paint, or the whole...
...match was so one-sided that the stadium rocked to the shrill and scornful sound of the "Moscow Whistle," a nerveracking Eastern echo of The Bronx cheer. English sportswriters found it all terribly embarrassing. "The Russians," said Desmond Hackett of the Daily Express, "are not easily amused. But before battered Arsenal had crawled out of the floodlit stadium tonight, 75,000 Russians were laughing like kids at a pantomime . . . The crowd were tossing peaked caps and laughing fit to bust...