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...your story regarding Argo starch addiction in many pregnant Negro women [July 28]: This is nothing new or astonishing to many Northern doctors. As a former Yankee who was a medical student and intern in Cincinnati during the mid-fifties, I was well aware of this common practice, which was frequently discussed on our ward rounds. While some may believe this eating of starch has profound psychiatric implications, our understanding (based on talking with many of these mothers) is much homelier. Through folklore, many women believe that the starch, in some fashion, enhances the production of vernix caseosa, thereby making...
Across the country, the preferred brand is Argo Gloss Starch, available in either the economy-size blue box at 19? or the handy red box at 11?. Both contain chewy lumps that taste, according to one gourmet, like "a cross between milk of magnesia and matzo. The texture is that of an after-dinner mint." Like peanuts, one handful leads to another. "After a box of it," said one woman, "my throat gets kind of sticky, so I go and get a big glass of ice water. Then I get a powerful desire for more." Some enthusiasts spice laundry starch...
Inexpensive Psychiatry. Argo representatives say that their laundry product contains nothing but cornstarch, a common thickener for soups and desserts. (They also say the starch-eating habit is "rare.") According to medical opinion, eating large amounts of laundry starch often brings on anemia by blocking the body's absorption of iron. Some doctors state that overeating laundry starch may also cause a deficiency of folic acid, which in pregnant women may lead to premature births or bleeding near delivery time...
...summer students. Memorial Hall, Saturday, July 22, 8-12 p.m. Music by Three Argo. Admission plus Harvard Summer School Privilege Card...
...psychedelic show, Kirkland House members will on Saturday night revel at a Barn Dance to be held in Concord. Bowing to one's partner and dos-y-do-ing will be replaced by a more modern set of steps and gyrations as the rock 'n' roll sound of Thee Argo replaces the more traditional strains of the barn dance fiddler...