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Osteopaths Under the heading "Weird Hospital," TIME'S medical column, for March 4, gives some weird allopathic propaganda against the osteopathic school of medicine and surgery. It gives forth the following amazing information...
...years ago, the only reason anybody wanted to her Cab Calloway was to see the King of Hi-Di-Ho tear the stage into small splinters, put his larynx to such weird uses as gargling "Chinese Rhythm", and moan the immortal "Minnie The Moocher...
...doctors outside California, Los Angeles County General Hospital is a weird and wonderful place. Although it was built for charity patients, it charges them, under State law, an average maintenance rate of $4.78 a day, almost $1.50 higher than average rates in private hospital wards. Although it was built by doctors, it welcomes, under State law, a flock of osteopaths. Doctors and osteopaths work in separate wings, seldom speak to each other. For nearly six months it has had no director, and many of its prominent staff members have marched out in a huff...
Mention of the word party brings to Ouida Bergère's baby brown eyes a weird, predaceous glitter. Ouida Bergère (nee Ida Berger) is chubby, red-headed Mrs. Basil Rathbone. Once something of a scriptress, for seven years she was head of Paramount's scenario department. Now, with her tall, dark, talented, professionally sinister, personally amiable cinemactor husband she inhabits an overstuffed stronghold in Hollywood's fashionable Bel Air quarter. There she contrives her parties. They are said to begin as a fulmination of her blood, a bounding along the veins, which eventually detonates...
...marvelous pantomime as Ma Joad burns her box of letters and keepsakes before starting west-a silent scene that is broken by two meaningful words: "I'm ready." It is in the three tense worried faces reflected in the windshield of the jaloppy as the family crosses the weird desert at night. Above all, it is in the ironically recurring song of the mockingbird, heard in the distance as the family first sights California's orchards...