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...every audience, and gives free play to his peculiar talents. The modesty of the character in his circumstances and of the actor in his histrionics are bound to be winning. Ant then a certain embarrassed chuckle, sometimes developing into a full-grown roar, is the answer to every complex situation and is just as effective in provoking mirth as lines of clever comment could be. While Mr. Cohan's horse sense and homely goodness are well-calculated to captivate the middle-aged security-lovers in audience and play, it is not so easy to understand their fabulous effects over pretty...
...simple solution which is always sought and usually found. In China nothing so takes the bloom off a proposed solution, nothing makes a Chinese statesman so unwilling to bite on it, as simplicity. There could be in China last week no simple solution, and as usual the complex story was replete with curious characters...
...Divine Providence and a quickness and readiness, through a highly impressionable and emotional mentality, to believe in human perfection and the brotherhood of man. My husband, also colored and of my own age, regards himself as well read in the Bible, and has always sought relief from an inferiority complex resulting from the color of his skin, in the consoling thought of a blessed hereafter. These mental attitudes no doubt caused us to become easy subjects for Father Divine's preachments...
...this drug, which some responsible doctors last week were calling the medical discovery of the decade, were Professors Heinrich Horlein and Gerhard Domagk of the German Dye Trust. Dr. Horlein, director of the Trust's pharmaceutical research at Elberfeld, and Dr. Domagk, a chemotherapist, designed Prontosil's complex molecule of dyestuff. After Dye Trust synthetists made it. Dr. Domagk experimented on mice, found that it did not kill them, that it did cure them of streptococcic infections. Other German doctors tried the material on human beings, began to report success in 1935. Last June two London gynecologists reported...
...have been the most spectacular comeback of their generation. Under the arrangement with their backers, however, they could not bequeath this potentiality in their last will & testament. Control of Midamerica reverted to Messrs. Ball & Tomlinson-principally Mr. Ball. Since neither of these gentlemen cared to cope with the discouragingly complex Van Sweringen corporate setup, they had to find a successor to Brother Oris Paxton...