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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hutchinson in Paris 42 years ago. He came to Mexico in 1942 and set up shop as Henri de Chatillon, hatmaker, in the Reforma mansion that had once housed Emperor Maximilian's mistress. His first hats were as fantastic as they were expensive, and sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap woven straw strips used to cinch saddles under horses' bellies...
...Codes. The more progressive school boards that do look for new designs are often hampered by outmoded building codes. Some states still insist that windows be placed only on one wall. Regulations for ceiling heights, says the FORUM, are often "predicated on ventilating theories proved erroneous...
...forums on international problems, packed juniors off for a year of study abroad. Sweet Briar, founded as a ladies' seminary, came alive with international chatter. On bridle paths and under the colonnades, Sweet Briar girls talked long and earnestly about the state of the universe. President Lucas herself often joined in their discussions...
...this form of the disease, rarer but far deadlier than spinal polio, the virus attacks the bulb or brain stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...
...after a promising start, grew broader at every appearance. The production in general was forthright, with Frances Reid attractively girlish, even where she should have been boyish, as Viola. If the evening wasn't a great deal of fun, it was perhaps because a forthright Twelfth Night is often little better than a fourth-rate one. The situation calls for magic...