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...nine closes the season with an unimpressive record of three wins against the same number of losses. Harvard's bitterest pill to swallow this summer is the three pastings which the powerful Boston University Terriers presented to the tunes...
Sherlock Holmes would have been at home in Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...
...make way for it, Hearst's hustlebustle evening Herald-American last week dumped a "goofball" (sleeping pill) expose it had been running for weeks. As the new series developed, opposition editors sighed; baby-faced Harry Reutlinger, city editor of the Herald-American, was turning his journalistic cartwheels again. They had given up hoping he would fall on his face; but they still marveled at the razzle-dazzle that has pushed his paper (circ. 562,000) out in front of the competing Times and Jack Knight's Daily News...
This time, however, Britain's pill would at least have a nice new saccharine coating. The campaign for more and harder work would be called, not austerity but a "prosperity drive"; if the drive went well, Attlee thought that by year's end the British people might expect the supply of consumer goods to be "halfway back" to prewar standards...
Since the Japanese surrender last August, Generalissimo Chiang's Government has cracked down on opium dens in Peiping and Tientsin, ordered the destruction of poppy fields. All addicts must give up the habit in eight months or suffer severe punishment. A grower of poppies, a purveyor, or a pill-smoker caught in his third offense may be punished by death...