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Three Drops. Joe 'took her to the best doctors. They found nothing wrong. He got her into St. Joseph's Hospital at Phoenix, but after a month she was almost totally blind. Not until then did a cautious Yaqui Indian sidle up and tell Joe what had really happened: "She's had a curse put on her by a powerful witch." Joe snorted. But when the Yaqui recommended that he see a Puerto Rican bruja about a cure. Joe went. The witch knew all about Josefina's case, and offered to save one of her eyes...
Shorts & Overs. In Phoenix, Ariz., sheriff's deputies rushed to investigate a shooting, learned that a woman had stood ten feet from her husband and fired six pistol shots at him, all misses...
...just the way the Romans did. She has helped organize Latin Weeks in 30 different states, still keeps up a lively correspondence with teachers all over her own state. Last week, in a typical fit of enthusiasm, she told her forum audience: "I feel as if Latin, like the Phoenix, is arising from the ashes." In South Carolina, thanks to Dr. Martin, it apparently...
...Water & Lemon. At a ranch outside Phoenix last week, Elizabeth Arden's carriage-trade customers were getting a full course of beauty treatments, including slimming, for $500 a week. At Kiowa Lodge, southeast of Los Angeles, an ex-football player (Michigan State) named Sam Dictor was offering a reducing course for the jitney trade at $80 a week. The program began with a glass of hot water and lemon juice served in bed. Then the inmates jumped into sweat suits emblazoned "Kiowa," and began a rugged, day-long routine of calisthenics, swimming, games and "passive exercise" with reducing gadgets...
...deal, biggest Inland has ever made, was quite a comeback for Cy Eaton, who has been in many hot spots but has proved as durable as the phoenix. In the '20s he built a Midwest empire of steel, rubber and iron ore, only to lose control of it during the Depression. Slowly he built another, only to see it threatened three years ago, when his Otis & Co. walked out of a Kaiser-Frazer stockselling agreement, and his ex-friend Henry Kaiser won $3,000,000 in judgments (TIME, July 16, 1951). Otis filed in bankruptcy, and Kaiser began hunting...