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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola = THREE WEEKS 1 & long time to be gone. A man ] ot of worrying in- that I t time. Experience has taught me that. sngth ’ Experience also has taught me that no .one

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Shop J furniture, pumpkins and oak trees. Men of both shifts at Fire atuniay Station 15, a stone's throw from 9:30 te | my pumpkin vines, assure me _ the only thing to worry about i P. M, | is getting married Saturday

without fainting and getting out of town as fast as possible. They'll take care of the pumpkins. It isn’t that I don’t trust them. And I don't think more of the pumpkins that will take : first prize in the State Muck Crop Show in Nappanee, Oct. 28-31, than I do of the wedding or Rosemary. : The point is, the chapel at 88. Peter & Paul Cathedral will be there, the bride will be there, the ushers and the best man will be there, but will the pumpkins be in the garden at 2102 Spann Ave. when I get back?

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TWO YEARS ago after a vacation Little ~ Oakie in University Park was deader than a toothpick. : . A year ago Big Oakie, who was transplanted from the Morgan-Monroe Forest, ‘was gasping when I returned from Europe. When the leaves turned brown in the fall,*Big Oakie went to sleep forever. This year there is Big Oakie III and three pumpkin vines. The tree is dedicated to the memory of the late Mayor Al Feeney. Big Oakie III isn’t as green as he should be. He's just barely holding his own. The pumpkin vines are in terrific shape. They should have pumpkins any day provided nothing happens. Will the guys at Station 15 loosen the mour.ds every day, water the vines every day, pour a pint of sheep tea once a week, a quart of skim milk once a week, a gallon of nitrate solution a week, dust the vines with inséct powder

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By Earl Wilson

SIDESHOW, CHICAGO, July 10—All my life I wanted to meet the richest man on earth— hoping some might rub off on me—but I had to come to the big Republican circus to talk to Ho Lor ("Million‘a“week”) Hunt, the Texas wildcatter, “A million-a-week,” you're exclaiming. “Is that possible?” Maybe it’s only a million a month. Nobody knows but Mr. Hunt, and he’s not telling. Anyway, up .in his suite at the Hotel Blackstone during the convention, a man was washing out his own socks in the wash basin. ~ It was the sort of thing you wanted to call the office about and shout, “Stop the presses.” Could a rich man be so thrifty?” But, after all, the waiters around Chicago were griping about tips. They were saying that when you call the Republicans “conservative”— you weren't kidding.

Mall over at 606 Club, a strip-tease citadel, “that the waiters have to tip each other.” However, the suspicions about multimillionaire Hunt, of Dallas, Gen. MacArthur's wealthiest angel, weren't true, Wl The self-laundromat in the fancy hotel who had all the maids gossiping was Mr. Hunt's

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IT WAS NICE to have a gander at the socalled richest man on earth—not that there wasn't plenty of razzamataz without him.

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so craved a general admission badge good for all funcions that it reportedly paid $1000 to a black market for same. Beer was 40: cents. Hot dogs were 26 cents and up. The strip-tease joints, supposedly clamped down, were wide open, with the strip-tease dollies wearing candidates badges in important areas when they bared all.

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ollar and Convert- before—and then came this sixtyish Texan , named Hunt, looking a little like the late W. C. Fields, with white hair flaring back attractively. “Might you nominate MacArthur?” we asked this classic gambler of whom it's said that he got his start by winning an oil lease in a crap game. “I do pretty good to talk to as many as three people,” he said. “If there were six, I probably couldn’t say a word.” The chunky, ostentatious-looking Texan neither acknowledged nor denied it when it was mentioned that he might have money gushing in at the rate of $1 million a week. “T expect that I have brought in some wildcat fields,” he agreed, “that would go up to, yes, mavbe $100 million—over a period of years.” In a simple quiet way he said he gets to New York occasionally. But he said: “I don't go, up there for business advice, I assure you. Theyre too Close to the picture.”

OVER in the places dedicated to near-nudity, the heat was off —and so were the bras, We decided to take nobody's word for this and make a personal survey. For as always

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

CHICAGO, July 10—We are a fairly slowmoving country, despite our braggadocio, and we are awfully slovenly on the draw when it comes to adopting our thoughts and techniques to the demands of the present. Politically we are still somewhere in the early William Jennings Bryan epoch, and I will not be at all surprised if we come out of this Republican convention with Abe Lincoln as the people’s choice for tomorrow’s presidency. Honest Abe has been invoked so often recently I keep forgetting some actor done him in. In a faintly surly mood, due to overexposure to oratory and a blistered heel, I would say that the whole present system of political presentation is sadly in need of overhaul, and especially is political rhetoric ripe for a refresher. The people who come to conventions for the purpose of speechifying are almost without exception living in the horse-and buggy era of oratory. They all sound like Harry Balogh, the fight announcer, whose redundancy is so redundant that it has too many words meaning the same thing in its overflorid orotundity. Ah ha, May run for something myself.

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~ I WILL EXCLUDE Mr. Herbert Hoover, a man who géts up with something to say and says it with a minimum of agitation, because Mr, Hoover is a member of the how-to school, He does not merely come out against sin, but is rather prone to specify its antidote. ; But it seems to me that human intelligence has reached a point of discontent with the shouters and exhorters, who tell you in a few billion illchosen cliches that wrong is unright, that bad is ungood, and that something must be done. Hell's horns, I know sometling must be done, but what they can tell me is how to do it. There is some misapprehension among hambone politicos that vehemence will carry the camp meeting, and that the worth of a certain sentiment must be measured by decibles for its noise quofient. They may anig¥é tlé members of their immediate families, but they induce in a stranger a cold ferocity of purpose that would lead him to vote in the other direction, out of sheer perverseness. ® © o “ IT APPEARS to me that I must be getting awfully old and terribly cranky, because the hoopla of these carnivals has palled to the point of complete boredom. Maybe you feel differently. ‘What I know is that I am not going to vote for Harold Stassen, say, just because a

After a certain exposure to the paraphernalia of convention, you begin to wonder if lie is real

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It Happened Last N ight

“It’s gotten so,” growled cafe comedian Paul .

roommate, H. L. Williford, also of Texas, and he J

Posterity might wish to record that a network

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Pumpkins, Cupid

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ee ¢ 9 - WHAT IF-AN epidemic of fires breaks out in 1 firemen have to work: all week? What if Capt.i®elbert Emhardt thinks Capt. Joe Sefried did seme work and vice versa and no one shags out to do it? What if the men on both shifts see their captains unworried about the pumpkins? Are they going to do something about it? I'don’'t know, See why I'm worried? Just in case, even though most bridegrooms don't like to tell where they are going with their brides, I'm going to tell all my friends where I can be reached in case of an emergency. At 4:35 p.m. Saturday, Rosemary and I are taking a Constellation to Miami. We'll arrive in Miami at 9:59 p. ni. From there we go to-the Isle de Capri Hotel and Yacht Club, 7900 Harbor Island, Miami Beach. Except for a motor trip to Key West about Wednesday of next week, we'll hang around the Isle and the Beach. There's plenty of reason for

that. ed @ IN THE first place, we'll have an air-condi-tioned room and a hop-skip-and-a-jump away there's the Carnival Room where ce] The bend a

carefree or worried elbow and dance’ The Isle-de Capri has a golf course, tennis courts, swimming pool shaped like a kidney and a yacht basin where I hope some kind yacht owner will condescend to give a couple of honeymooners a ride. Paul F. Gocke, manager of the hotel, will know exactly where we are at all times, Station 15 personnel know the itinerary. Now you alk know, just in case. . We'll leave Mijami on -the Southwind train Saturday, July 26, at 12:01 p.m. and arrive in Indianapolis Sunday afternoon. I'll be looking the situation over Sunday. eS 2 : TUESDAY MORNING we leave for Hammond and report to my mother. That's the 29th of July. The address is 4515 Johnson Ave. and the phone is SHeffield 7478-R. Saturday afternoon, Aug. 2, the Monon will bring us back to Indianapolis and the honeymoon will ‘be over. After that it’s just a happy married life. . Gee that was fast. Hmmmm--nothin’ to it. Ha, the*8l’ hand is steady and the eye is clear.

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among certain convention followers, it is unconventional to go to the convention. We had to wait through six or seven stripteasers—and we hated every wiggle of it-=to see this gal Marion Russell. She wore a Taft button on one side of her bodice, and an Ike button on the other side. “I'm strictly neutral,” she explained coyly.

THE WOMAN who brought the strangest things here with her (candidates’ wives excepted) was Helen Sioussant of CBS radio, who fetched along two tiger cats. The Congress Hotel installed special screens for her, “They had to,” she said, “when I couldn’t get a kitten-sitter.” And you must have heard about the delegate from the backwoods who was taking no chances when he registered—wanted to make sure that his hotel had inside plumbing. A top Democrat is embarrassing other party members by telling friends that the country needs a different party in the White House . . . Didn't Eleanor Roosevelt buy a town house on Hast 55th St. to be used in her TV and radio packaging business? . . . Katy Jurado is in “High Noon” with Gary Cooper. Baty Sec. of the Interior Oscar Chapman is the leading figure in the Truman cabinet trying to get Gov. Stevenson nominated . . . Joel Gray, the new young Copa comic, is booked for the Mocambo, has a Capitol Record contract and is getting on MGM test as a result of his click. ® © o EARL'S PEARLS . . . At Majors Cabin Restaurant, Taffy Tuttle described a cocktail party: Something that starts out all for free and winds up a free-for-all.” > So WISH I'D SAID THAT: Eisenhower and Taft may have the most buttons, say Bob Olin, but Betty Grable has the best pins. eo ¢ TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: The nudists -are holding their convention this month, too, which reminds “Quote” that the number of nudists in

the U. 8. is a bare 50,000. Newest link in the Betsy von Furstenberg

chain is Lawrence Tierney. e oo JAN MURRAY reports an Olympic track man who is shifting from the 100 meter dash to the 10,000 meter cause he thinks he'll be happier in the long run . . , That's Earl, brother.

Miss Jurado

Horse-and-Buggy Era of Oratory

at all, let alone earnest. This does not seem to be a solemn conclave to choose a man to lead the nation and perchance the world. It sounds more like feeding time in a zoo for idiots. The thing you can deplore is that whatever seriousness of purpose or basic nobility of character is here it has a way of getting buried in the surrounding nonsense of the carnival approach to elections. The slogans become ridiculous—the noise becomes unbearable. I am standing foursquare at the moment for Mr. James Durante, the nosy gent whose slogan is: “Gimme Jimmy.” Makes as much sense as the rest. . . > & THIS HAS become a rather new-fashioned world, full of things like radar and airplanes and jet propulsion and shattered atoms and the imminent threat of awful doom. It is some sort of challenge that calls for special handling by the architects of its future. It.deserves some serious consideration by its candidates for control. I do not get this feeling in Chicago this year. I keep looking for the seminaked lady in the inflammable skirt, and as yet have been unable to discover the cotton-candy concession. Hurry, hurry, hurry. The bearded lady and the twoheaded glass-eater are just to your right, over behind the second bank of television equipment.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Could we start a new strawberry bed now? We have runners we could use for plants.—Park Ave. A-—If you are experienced in the handling of any kind of plants in hot weather, there’s no reason you shouldn't. Of course, heat and sun make midsummer transplanting of any kind more dificult. So if you're quite new at gardening better not try it. -In any case, get the runners well rooted before you move them. One good way (takes time) is to pin them down with a clothespin or bobby pin so they'll root in a small flower pot. Then when you cut them away from the parent plant they're all ready to grow on’ their own with no root damage. Use transplanting solution.. It- helps immensely when you're transplanting under difficult conditions. And of course disturb the roots as little as possible and shade the plants if they need it. Biggest advantage, to my mind, of doing such chores at odd times is that there's more time to do a careful job of soil preparation. When the spring ei we all tend to slight that

The Indianapolis Times

ummary Of GOP's 1952 Platform

By United Press CHICAGO, July 10 — Topical summary of the 1952 Republican platform:

. . Foreign Policy The Democrats have “lost the peace;” they fumbled and vacillated in a futile attempt to “contain” communism. They invited war in Korea, then ‘refused to fight it to win, Republicans clean out the State Department and fire diplomats who helped to engineer the present plight. They will wage peace and win it. They will support collective security aboard, but will limit economic and military aid to what we can afford. They will give Asia equal priority with Europe, and won't overlook the Americas either.

Reciprocal Trade

The party favors expansjon of world trade. Reciprocal trade agreements will be continued on a basis of “true reciprocity” and with protection of domestic industry against unfair import comPetition, °

National Defense

Our arms program is “disgracefully lagging.” Russia may not wait. So GOP will develop with “utmost speed” an air, land and sea force “in being, as distinguished from paper plans,” able to deter aggression or repel attack. “Completely adequate” air power will be built as fast as possible.

* Corruption GOP will “end corruption,” oust “crooks and grafters” from. government, restore honest govern-

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graft, favoritism has shocked and sickened the people.”

Censorship

The party won't infringe on people’s right to know what their government is doing, either by “censorship or gag order.”

. * * Civil Rights The GOP condemns bigotry and denounces Democratic “duplicity and insincerity” in civil rights promises. It believes states should carry the main responsibility on civil rights, with the federal government filling the gaps. The party pisiges federal action against lynching, poll taxes, and segregation in the national capital. It will enact “legislation to further just and equitable treatment in thé area of discriminatory employment practices.” This won't apply where states end such practices on their own.

Communism

The administration has appeased: communism at home and abroad; Reds have infiltrated the government. Lives and dollars have been lost, as has the secret of the atomic bomb: There are no communists in the GOP. A Republican President will “overhaul” loyalty programs and hire only persons of “unquestioned loyalty.”

Tideland Oil

GOP supports state ownership. Small Business

For 20 years the Democrats have praised free enterprise while sabotaging it. The GOP will halt harassment..and needless regulation of business, It will fight mo-

ment. The present administration's record of fraud, bribery,

By DICK MITTMAN A LITTLE after 8 o'clock this morning, Parcel Postman Roscoe McClain pulled open the screen door of The Indianapolis Times, trudged up the six steps and dropped his armiload of

packages on the front desk. He stepped back, wiped his

- ‘brow with a handkerchief and

"said, “Whew.” : ¢ - ‘He had a special right to today. Postman McClain had just‘ completed 30 years’ service delivering parcel post packages to The Times and other downtown business places. On July 10, 1922, Mr. McClain donned the “Confederate gray” uniform of the Postal Department and embarked on his career. = o = OVER three decades, Mr. McClain has worked under five or six postmasters, including the late Robert Bryson and his present boss, George Ress. He said, “They're the best bosses in the world; a great gang to work for.”

Price and Wage Controls

Democrats have used controls to bolster their own power, not to control inflation. Republicans will end “injurious” price and wage controls, and halt “senseless use” of other restrictions on business.

-{The GOP will fight inflation by

encouraging full production. “Further inflation must be and can be prevented.”

Rent Control and Housing

Rent controls will be ended except where expanding defense production has produced a “critical” housing shortage. “With local cooperation we shall ald - slum clearance.” : RT

Taxation

The GOP goal {s balanced budget, reduced debt, economy in government, a cut in taxes. Taxes will be collected impartially and without political interference.

District of

Columbia

The party supports self-govern-ment and national suffrage for nation’s capital.

Agriculture

The administration has sought to destroy farmers’ freedom through a “partisan” farm program. The GOP wants to help the farmer; not socialize him. The party pledges a flexible support

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the market place.” It favors com-

and locally controlled marketing agreements on perishables. It opposes crop limitations.

Israel

The GOP supports a national home for the Jews, will continue “friendly interest” in Israel.

Education

Responsibility.for public schooling must remain with local communities and states. 3

» Mail It pledges better and more frequent mail deliveries.

Women’s Rights

The party favors a Constitu. tional amendment providing equal rights for women, and legislation assuring equal pay.

Statehood

The GOP favors statehood for Hawail immediately, for Alaska “under an equitable enabling act,” and for Puerto Rico eventually.

. oa Social Security Coverage should be extended to those “justly entitled to it” but now excluded. The best way to preserve benefits is to halt in-

flation, which GOP . proposes to do. : Labor

The GOP favors retention of the Taft-Hartley Law, with such amendments as experience proves) desirable. "The party condemns President Truman's seizure of

nopolistic and unfair trade practices.

THAT'S A LOT OF PACKAGES—

Whew . . . It's Been Going On 30 Years

Mr. McClain’s route covers the area between Illinois and West Sts. and Washington and South Sts. Among the business places to which he delivers besides The Times, are Kiefer-Stewart Co, Central Supply Co. and Vonnegut Hardware Co. At 56, Mr. McClain has curly gray-black hair and sunbronzed skin. He not only looks healthy—he -has ‘missed. ‘only three days work because of illness. : Recalling the first truck he used, he said, “It was an old Commercial, which had neither doors nor sliding panels. You nearly froze in the wintertime.” The worst of these winters was in 1923, he said. But cold, wet weather did more than freeze the truck driver. It made many of the unpaved streets a quagmire; driving a hazard. n » . FISHING is Mr. McClain's hobby. He goes’ to Minnesota every year on his vacation to enjoy the sport. “Biggest thing I ever caught

HEART WORRY AND ITS CURE—

Puffy Ankles Needn't Be A Symptom

CHAPTER FOUR

Does Ankle Swelling Worry You? By PETER STEINCHRON, M. D.

EVERY week, hundreds of frightened patients visit their doctors, certain the specter of heart disease has

~ become a reality.

Why? Because they have observed, for the first time in their lives that their ankles were puffy.

Now, it is frue that one of the cardinal symptoms of actual heart failure is swelling of the ankles. Remember, however, such swelling does not occur as an isolated symptom. Rarely do we find it without shortness of breath, cough, indigestion, or other such symptoms of heart failure.

If you are apparently healthy except for ‘swelling of the ankles” it is likely the cause lies elsewhere. For instance, suppose you are a floorwalker, mailman, or a salesman on your feet all your working day. And suppose, being one of these, your shoes seem to shrink at night. On examination we usually find your so-called swelling is only a puffiness. It is the natural reaction,

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This is the fourth of a series of heart-to-heart talks between a noted New England physician and you. Editors.

especially in hot weather to an all-day strain. (If you walked around on your hands all day, probably they would swell, too.) ! x » =»

THE OTHER DAY a 40-year-old man came in for examination. “I know I must have heart disease,” he said. “Just look at the swelling in this ankle.” “For years he had varicose veins. On one leg there was an unhealed ulcer. He had never treated these veins. But he was concerned the moment his legs became puffy. The skin over his ankles and shins had lost its normal resiliency but there was no actual swelling... An operation for his varicose veins improved his leg circulation and ended his fears of heart disease. Sometimes a patient will be mildly concerned about heartdisease because of repeated swelling in one ankle. A careful history uncovers the fact the patient had sprained that ankle a number of times—the last, about two weeks ago. Such persons are not hard to convince

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was a 15-pound muskie,” he says. . Mr. McClain has been married 32 years. Like all outdoor men, he loves to eat. And Mrs. McClain can whip up the “bestest horticulture beans and ham a goin’.” In his spare time, Mr. MeClain putters around the gar-

den at his home, 1850 W. 57th

St. see have a mess of flowers and vegetables. I don’t know what most of them are, but when my wife says plant 'em, I plant 'em.” ? *®

THE POSTMAN likes to tell

this one on himself: “It was the biggest mistake I ever made. I had a package addressed to Hotel Lincoln, which is open 24 hours a day. I marked on it, ‘door not answered.’ ” ‘ ' Mr, McClain does not plan retire soon. He says, “I won't be delivering another .30 years but I hope to be out at the Illinois St. station at 7 every morning until I'm 60.” »

because they are only slightly suspicious of the heart, Another causé of unnecessary fear is periodic swelling of the feet and: lower legs in women. They will say: “I am not actually worried about my heart at all. But I can’t help getting suspicious of it for a few days each month when my ankles seem to swell.”

This ankle swelling at the time of the menses has been recognized for some time. It is due to high fluid retention. It is similar, in cause and effect, to the tightness and swelling of the breasts which _occurs and prpduces breast tenderness. Heart fear flies out the window when the period is over and the puffy ankles disappear. # ” - HOT WEATHER is another offender, especially in the overweight. These patients forget about their hearts in cool weather, The heat may cause puffiness, and this brings them to the doctor. :

Calming down the patient is more difficult in these cases because the swelling usually lasts, It may persist for weeks during a hot spell, “I know it must be my heart,” they say. “I have a number of friends whose ankles

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Farm Co-ops and REA

Republicans support bona fide farmer-owned and farmer-oper-ated co-operatives. It urges fur ther development of rural electrification with federal assistance where private industry can’t meet need at fair rates,

Natural Resources

The party advocates a “full and orderly program for the development and conservation” of natural resources. It favors reasonable depletion allowances and other moves to encourage explora tion. .

Public Works and Water Policy

The party supports “econome feally justifiable” public works; opposes federal undermining of state control of water use; opposes “federal socialistic valley authorities.” .

Veterans Compensation should be ade justed to meet changes in living costs; Veterans Administration must not be dismantled.

* » Reorganization The GOP pledges “thorough res organization” of federal governe ment - as proposed by Hoover Commission.

Health

“Wiha BaF pn acy nonans pulsory health insurance; it will

plants to force settlement of labor disputes.

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never swell during hot weather.”

I have purposely used the word “puffy” to describe swollen ankles not caused by heart disease. There is a distinct difference : between a puffy ankle and one whose swelling is due to fluid collection in the tissues under the skin.

Genuine heart conditions may cause large amounts of fluid to collect in various parts of the body. For example, in hopeless cases, quarts of such fluid may collect in the lung sacs and in the peritoneal cavity. It may also form in the pericardial sac that encloses the heart itself. It may prdouce congestion in the liver and kidneys. In like manner, the fluid collects in the ankles, legs and thighs. When the fluid in the ankles {is small, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish it from simple puffiness. However, as the heart failure persists, the collection of fluid distends the foot and ankle tissues. (This is called edema.) There is a simple test for diagnosing the presence of free fluid in the lower legs. Press firmly, with thumb — or using all the finger points—into the skin, keeping up the pressure for a few seconds. Then quickly

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withdraw the pressure and ob serve the skin closely. If there is simple puffiness, unconnected with heart dis ease, you will see only white pressure marks on the ‘skin. When it is dus to real heart failure, you will observe shal~ low to deép dents left in the skin when you remove your thumb or fingers. You find the same effect as when you press your fingers in moderately soft clay. 2

~ ” » THESE INDENTATIONS in the waterlogged skin persist for some time (seconds or minutes) before they fill in again. We say such skin “pits on pressure.” Now don’t go about jabbing your ankles nightly, applying this test for heart failure. Nevertheless, if you are really concerned about swelling, if doubt raises his ugly head, make haste to your doctor for two reasons: ONE—To get a head start in treating your heart trouble—if that's what you have; TWO-—To get a head start forgetting about it if it turns out to be Imaginary Heart Trouble. Chances are it's that. (Copyright, by Peter J. Steincrohn, M. D,

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