Word: acidizing
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...Belvedere Rings the Bell (20th Century-Fox) keeps the Clifton Webb series alive, but only at the cost of sabotaging its leading character and committing mayhem on the 1948 Broadway success, The Silver Whistle. This time, the acid, all-knowing Webb is uncomfortably fitted out with a heart of gold, while Robert McEnroe's comedy, on which the movie is based, loses most of its puckish spirit...
...first doctors gave him plenty of advice about what not to eat, too little about what he should eat. This led to a sorry circle: "Eating became a worry, and worry generates hydrochloric acid, and hydrochloric acid induces ulcers." After his "third or fourth ulcer," he took dinner with Dr. Sara Jordan of Boston's Lahey Clinic, picked a fruit compote for dessert. Dr. Jordan suggested meringue glac...
John Crosby, the New York Herald Tribune's sometimes acid critic of radio & TV, gave readers of his column a notable demonstration of selfless critical impartiality last week. In the course of a discussion of teen-age shows on television, Crosby mentioned Jimmy Elaine's Junior Edition, "a show I've watched more often than would be my normal won't simply because my wife, Mary Crosby, happens...
During the eight weeks of the MacArthur hearing, the President had generally maintained a heavy-breathing silence, broken only by a few acid press-conference comments. But by the time he flew off to Tullahoma, Tenn. (pop. 7,521) this week to dedicate the Air Force's new 34,000-acre Arnold Engineering Development Center,* the hearing was sputtering to a close. Harry Truman took the opportunity of letting his critics know what he thought of them. Burden of his speech: everything the Administration has done in Asia was just exactly right; people who disagree are at least misguided...
...Average Man." No man was better equipped than Roger Williams to show what vitamins could do. The younger (58) brother of Robert Runnels Williams of B1 and beriberi fame (TIME, April 30), he identified pantothenic acid and helped to discover folic acid, two of the vitamins in the B complex, did pioneering work on several of the others. Along the way, Roger Williams became distressed by the way science tends to deal with the nonexistent "average man," plumped for a science of "humanics" in which differences among men, rather than similarities, would be emphasized...