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Past Smokers have usually been held in Memorial Hall or Sanders Theatre, and have featured each time an impressive list of entertainers to assuage the spring fever of the Yardlings. Candy, ice cream, soft drinks, and cigarettes are distributed free, and the evening often lasts for a hilarious four hours or more...
Back home after the war, he plugged for restoration of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg monarchy. George II, living in genteelly poor exile, had indicated his willingness to take his old job back and restoration fever grew. Little John glimpsed victory, but at the last moment powerful old General George Kondylis neatly elbowed him aside, brought George back to the throne, and himself became first commoner. Only a falling out between George and the General, followed by an opportune death, finally dropped the plum of premiership into Little John...
...last chance at love with a night-club saxophonist named Wally Collins, and in her fever for what was left of living, abjectly destroyed everything she had, her class, her selfesteem, even her self-deceit. Her Golgotha was a hideous gin-party in Maida Vale with Wally, a model, a radio pianist, an auto racer, a girl who stood on her head and drank two pints of beer...
Ever since the U. S. Government, goaded by Nazi rivalry, began courting Latin America, cultural and educational institutions on both sides of the Rio Grande have run a low fever of Pan-American good will. One result: an unprecedented exchange of Latin-American and U. S. art. Two months ago three Western Hemisphere cultural capitals-New Orleans, Guatemala City and San Salvador-started to do some handshaking on their own. The idea for this hands-across-the-Gulf was thought up by a New Orleans art patron, Doris Stone, whose father, big, angular Shipping Tycoon Samuel Zemurray, runs the ships...
...symptoms of allergy may be asthma, hay fever, edema (swelling), hives, eczema, sick headache, diarrhea, stomachache. Dr. Vaughan estimates that the U. S. has 6,000,000 people with hay fever, 600,000 to 3,500,000 with asthma, 3,000,000 with recurrent sick headaches, 4,000,000 with frequent or occasional hives-that altogether some 60,000,000 of the U. S. population have had, or will have, some major or minor allergic symptom at some time during their lives...