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...group of Johns Hopkins patients who had benign melanoma (moles) excised with another group who suffered from malignant melanoma (black cancers). Four out of five of the cancers had started as moles. Dr. Affleck found that moles occurred most frequently on the face and neck, next most frequently on chest, back, arms, abdomen, legs. Black cancers appeared most frequently on the legs, arms, face, neck and back. "Highest incidence," noted Dr. Affleck, "is apparently in those areas most subject to trauma, the foot and the great toe being the most frequent sites." The dangerous years: 21 to 70. When...
...world's greatest living cavalryman sat reading in his high-ceilinged London study one noon last week. Suddenly the book slid from his hands, his chin sagged to his chest and Field Marshal Sir Edmund Hynman Allenby, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo* and of Felixstowe, was dead...
...crushing headlocks and resounding slaps. Each diligently tied the other into knots. Shikat stood the Turk on his head, bounced him up & down. When, after 53 minutes of mauling, Shikat began to lose enthusiasm and the shoe polish from Baba's mustache dripped onto his hairy chest, the latter pinned Shikat with what Announcer Joe Humphreys identified as a flying crotch hold and body press. With this hold, Ali Baba became the fifth person in the U. S. currently claiming the World's Wrestling Championship...
...student submitting the best poster for Father's Day (June 21) the Cigar Progress Board will give a scholarship. To President Roosevelt (who invariably smokes Camel cigarets) the Board will send a chest of 500 fine cigars on Father's Day, which is to the tobacco trade what Mother's Day is to florists...
Unrivaled by Father John or the Smith Brothers, Lydia Pinkham was for years the most vivid personality in the U. S. medicine chest. Lydia Estes Pinkham died in Lynn, Mass, in 1883. Her prim pictures, however, remained on every package of tier famed Vegetable Compound, and clerks went on answering in her name 100,000 letters per year from women who thought the compound relieved their periodic ills. When the late Edward W. Bok started his crusade against patent medicines, he debunked the post-mortem Pinkham correspondence by publishing in his Ladies' Home Journal a picture of Mrs. Pinkham...