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...Sneezing, like hiccups, warts and baldness, is richly endowed with popular superstitions and remedies. Aristotle considered a sneeze evidence of the brain's vigor. Ancient Persians believed it to be the draft from the Evil One's wings. Hindus think a sneezer is expelling an evil spirit. Old wives' cures include pulling hairs from the nose, reciting the alphabet backwards, shooting off a revolver...
Superman & Rosie O'Grady. Berle's own gifts for TV should be plain even to his most diehard detractors. His early start as an entertainer has given him a unique combination of talents: he has an old trouper's know-how and a newcomer's vigor. To a grueling weekly job, he brings a boundless appetite for work and dazzling stores of energy. Cracks Bob Hope: "I think he ought to be investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission . . . Unfortunately, he's got talent, too." Besides being an excellent master of ceremonies, a facial contortionist...
...Broadway until some actor promotes it as a vehicle for his own glorification. Shakespeare for itself, no). The Workshop did for "Troilus and Cressida" what museum workers have done for old masters; they scraped away the centuries' accumulated alterations, "improvements," and dust; they restored it to its natural vigor and color. It was the Workshop's most noble effort, and, surprisingly enough, one that proved commercially ennobling, also...
...idea of the "film society" is nothing very new, but it is nevertheless, flourishing today with all the vigor of a new idea. There is hardly a large city in the country whose citizens have not been lately offered a chance to see "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "The Birth of a Nation," and other film classics. Although the audiences may be told that they are gathered together for the purpose of studying the new art form of the motion picture, there may be no more than a handful of really serious students of the cinema in each audience...
...have been sternly laid away by the authorities. The confetti battles in the Stadium and the infamous dirty joke contests at the Tree have both vanished, as did the 19th century spiked punch tradition. During the war, Class Day itself was submerged. But it has since risen with surprising vigor, and some of its ancient and less decorous traditions may even be revived...