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Half-century ago, a lush-bearded storekeeper in What Cheer, Iowa developed a passion for collecting goldfish bones. From fishbones, Daniel David Palmer turned to human vertebrae and founded the spine-tickling business of chiropractic. Today chiropractic is a $70,000,000-a-year industry, with 20,000 practitioners in 44 States legally manipulating everything from colds to high blood pressure. Instead of the old-fashioned manhandling of "Fish" Palmer, modern chiropractors use a glittering variety of labor-saving devices called by such impressive names as "Neurocalcograph," "Electroencephalomentimpograph," "Neurotempometer...
...about Spain than a vibrant radio voice. It also did not sound overmuch like what Hemingway had written. In Adapter Glazer's hands, it was less a personal memoir of Spain than a general tale of war. There was more drama in it, but more melodrama. Its sexual passion had been transformed into romantic love, its psychological conflicts swollen into moral crises...
Americans have an unholy passion for quizzes, puzzles, and question-answer games. Information Please and the Time current affairs tests are as much a part of American life as Charlic McCarthy and carter's Little Liver Pills. Even college students with examination jitters will tolerate quizzes if they are sugar-coated and the answers don't have to be written in bluebooks...
...mouth to right ear. The British Catholic Herald, after considerable inquiry among Joyce's former associates, stated flatly: "Lord Haw-Haw is William Joyce." The Herald further reported that Joyce had been brought up a Catholic, but that he has since been "entirely dominated by his anti-Semitic passion...
This account of a crisis in the young manhood of a 17-year-old boy is no more momentous than his change of voice, just as trying. Willie Baxter's puppy passion for Lola Pratt, the Baby Talk Lady, who is "almost a divorced woman," and his adolescent antics are as funny today as when they were written. High spots are still Willie's drastic expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with...