Icebuckets on life’s highway in hotel catalog guide
The Far Side columnist Gary Larson muses on chic hotel rooms and the vast American Hotel Register Co catalog. He contrasts trendy new designs with ordinary rooms and highlights practical items like heavy mildew resistant shower curtains and shoeshine cloths, ending with a toast to distinctly American motel staples.
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Newsweek Magazine
New York
Newsweek
American Hotel Register Co
Tiffany & Co
Victoria’s Secret
The
Date Book Today Moon Between Phases
The entry notes the Moon's phase interval from a full moon on September 15 to the last quarter on September 21. It records the lunar cycle timing for readers planning observations or events.
Stress tests and glowing in the dark hospital tale
A patient recalls undergoing a thallium stress test for a heart issue that likely does not exist. The ordeal features a nurse named Bette, a doctor dubbed Dr Frankfurt, and a radiation scare as the patient endures a treadmill, tubes, and a nuclear medicine robot. The piece blends humor with medical anxiety and ends with the narrator noting relief and a self-operated glow from radiation.
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America
Institute of Punitive Medicine
Dr. Frankfurt
James Arness
Von Recklinghausen’s disease neurofibromatosis type 1
Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a genetic disorder with brown cafe au lait spots and soft skin tumors from nerve endings. In about half cases inherited and half arise spontaneously. tumors can involve the head and body and rarely become cancerous, requiring yearly specialist care and family evaluation.
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von Recklinghausen
National NF Foundation,Inc
Fifth Avenue
Suite 7-S
New York
Cleveland Clinic
Euclid Avenue
Cleveland
Ohio
A. David Rothner
Crossword Clue Puzzle From Historic Page
Readable crossword clues cover Wildebeest to electrical unit and more. The list mixes across and down hints with archaic or cross-reference style entries like 4 Wildebeest 4-Finn 8 injure 12 Shred and 63 Relax.
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Constellation
Vegas
Slyglance
Frost
Roma
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Gary Larson
Bob Greene
Masaon
Hitler
Britain
Soviet Union
Moscow
Bette
Dr. Hamburg
Betle
Dave Barry
Cancer
Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center
Jeff MacNelly
Larry Trudeau
Twick
Mel
Nabl
Bailery Gardner
Khan
Rai
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