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...drug, pilocarpine which stimulates sweating and salivary and pancreatic secretions. After five doses of pilocarpine the patient "is mentally clear in every respect," and cannot recall any physical or mental distress. He has no desire for morphine, but has a healthy appetite. After six to eight weeks of body buildup, helped along by small doses of scopolamine and big doses of mental hygiene, patients are cured. Most stay cured...
Meantime another and less traditional way to pursue a Presidential nomination was being demonstrated by Colonel Frank Knox, energetic publisher of the Chicago Daily News. Aspirant Knox was speeding back & forth across the land, making speeches, giving interviews, openly creating for himself the publicity buildup, the indispensable "name & face stuff," which Governor Landon was getting by indirection. Fiscal 1936, Colonel Knox told Worcester (Mass.) Republican women last week, will end with a national public debt...
...carefully selected cast of very Gallic variety artists, the "Continental Varieties of 1936" opened at the Shubert Tuesday for a week's run thus allowing its star, Lucienne Boyer, to take up her Boston activities where she left off last season. Although the show is constructed mainly as a buildup for Miss Boyer's dramatic renditions of striking French ballads, it has its merits of its own, which the reviewer found as diverting as the talents of la belle diseuse. The performers are few in number and diverse in talent, but they all possess a great deal of that...
Confronted with such a buildup, the Chambermen, smart for once, decided not only to play Roosevelt ball but also to assume leadership of the whole co-operative drive. It resolved that "utterances by the President encourage the belief...that he is receptive of suggestions for promotion of the common welfare." It pledged "fullest co-operation." It appointed a Recovery committee headed by none other than Silas Hardy Strawn, Chamber president under Herbert Hoover and die-hard New Deal critic. Within two days, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, still pinching itself incredulously, found itself the leader of the whole current...
...like Warner Baxter, Madge Evans and James Dunn, who appeared in the same picture, got from $1,000 to $3,000. Shirley Temple's songs, smiles and capers made the picture profitable. They also marked her for that Hollywood rarity, a natural overnight star who needed no press buildup...