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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Among the 100 papers read at Chicago last week giving details of experiments in ACTH during the past year, there were other evidences of the drug's usefulness in short-term applications. In Savannah ACTH had saved one woman from the bite of a black widow spider and another from the bite of a copperhead snake. Early administration of ACTH in some cases of rheumatic fever had seemed to avert permanent damage to the heart. By & large, however, the Chicago papers proved only that doctors still have much to learn about the new drug. Where long-term administration...
...rimmed spectacles, and carrying a big package ("It's my old lady's birthday"), Larry bounced into the studio first. When "the old lady" showed up, her cued-in lyrics in hand, they went to work. Larry had had a bit of stock-company experience in the past year or two, but Mary wasn't too sure of his voice: "It hasn't settled enough for anyone to know what it is really like. But he can carry a tune . . ." After three hours of coaching, needling and playbacks, they finished You're Just in Love...
...marriage, he further uncloaks his character. ". . . You cling to the peacefulness and permanence of existing conditions-I must break them to satisfy my inner being; you are capable of sacrificing everything ... to 'have a respected position in the community,' which I despise . . . You think only of the past, with nostalgia and yearning-I give that up and think only of the future . . . You cling to people, I to causes; you to certain human beings, I to humanity...
...wooden baton-waver (in fact, he usually leads from the drums), Bruno gets deep into the act, taking his place in the conga line, occasionally even cutting in on couples dancing past. Gurgled one fat Florentine matron after a round with the master in the Posso di Beatrice, a cellar nightclub in a 13th Century palace: "This Bruno makes me feel like a five-year...
Simple Charleston. When he is not dancing, or groaning in a hoarse baritone, he circuit-rides the tables diagnosing customers' needs. Says Bruno: "The aristocracy lives in the nostalgic past; I give them nostalgic songs ... and for that they love my music. If I hear people speaking a foreign language, I always include songs from their countries." Aristocrats and foreigners alike seem to enjoy one of his prescriptions: his dance arrangements of familiar arias from Italian operas. So far he has turned bits from The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto and Trovatore into sambas; one of his biggest hits...