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...antiseptic-smelling medical center, a staff of 14 SESP doctors and technicians are working on a program that has already rid the town of malaria, of nearly all hookworm, and cut the remaining cases of amoebic dysentery...
...opened it from the inside. In the living room with the hostess, a pert blonde movie starlet named Lila Leeds, and Robin Ford, a scared real-estate man, the cops found big, sleepy-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchum. The handsome $3,000-a-week screen hero hastily tried to get rid of a cigarette that turned out to be marijuana. A detective found other "reefers" on Mitchum, Ford and Miss Leeds...
Found: $250,000. John Jacobs' first reform was to throw out thousands of obsolete books that were jamming his shelves (sample: a 1915 pamphlet on The Care of Teeth), and he soon had gotten rid of more books than he added. He streamlined every branch, put a new microfilm filing system into the main building, built new reading rooms, demanded-and got-a tripled library budget. He found a deposit of $250,000 that had been willed to the library and never used. He built two new branch libraries, one of them the first to be built...
...Hara . . .' My suggestion is that we interview the fatsos one by one . . . and suggest they consult a doctor. Of course, great singers like Melchior and Traubel should be kept regardless of heft, but minor singers could be given a year's probation and told to get rid of that candy box under the bed-or else . . . Opera would be a lot more popular in this country if there were a few wolf whistles mixed in with the bravos...
...world last week was out flat on the analyst's couch. What started wars, it appeared, was that everybody felt as guilty as Cain. To get rid of the guilt feelings, you had to do something violent. After having done something violent, you of course felt guilty again. After that-and so on, until the decline and fall of Western civilization...