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History Lesson. The President, who likes to lecture his audience as if they were college freshmen, cleared his throat. Not very many lawyers lounge around pressrooms, he remarked, but there really is such a thing as the law, and such an agency as the Department of Justice. And the law setting up the Justice Department provided that the Attorney General should be legal adviser to the Government of the United States. That law is still on the statute books, the President declared, and it works...
Frank Sinatra, bobbysocks Romeo, hospitalized with a bug in his throat and a temperature of 103½, was cooled off by the London Times: "Mr. Sinatra is unknown in this country and is likely to continue to remain...
...explanations for quitting after 14 years in Congress: a throat ailment, a desire to return to private law practice, "a dread of becoming a professional politician." Jubilant liberals, laborites and left-wingers thought they knew other reasons. Had he run again, Dies was in for the toughest fight of his life. Thousands of new workers had poured into the oil refineries and shipyards of Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange in Dies's war-booming Second District. The C.I.O. Political Action Committee, privately taking credit for the defeat of the No. 2 Dies Committeeman, Joe Starnes, in Alabama a fortnight...
Soon Dr. Fleming had ascertained that: 1) the strange liquid did not harm fresh leucocytes (white blood corpuscles); 2) injections of the liquid did not hurt mice; 3) some bacteria (e.g., whooping cough bacillus) lived in the liquid as cozily as in a baby's throat. Modest Dr. Fleming saved the moldy plate as a souvenir, still...
...line on Schireson, the Record sent a patient to consult him about making her neck prettier. She found a "heavyset man, sixtyish in appearance, dressed in youthful tweeds. His ready smile revealed excellent bridge-work." He said that a neck treatment would merely give her "a perfect neck, a throat of vibrant youth, topped by an aged face." She should have "a complete rotary reconstruction" to make her face as beautiful as her eyes. "Your eyes alone," said Schireson, "would be the dream of any plastic surgeon...