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...Bananas & Diarrhea, There is a stubborn, debilitating form of diarrhea called celiac disease. It is most common in children under 5. They cannot digest sugars, starches or fats. Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas of Manhattan found that ripe bananas, for some not fully understood reason, have the power to break up starches and convert cane sugar into more easily tolerated fruit sugar. With carbohydrate (sugar, starch) assimilation taken care of, digestion of fats takes care of itself. Ripe bananas contain all the essential vitamins, except bone-forming D. For times & places where ripe bananas are not available, there are now available...
Porto Rico is a land of mountains, of palms, and banana trees, of tropical storms and tropical beauty. The moss-grown walls of Morro Castle rise out of a wine dark sea at the entrance to San Juan harbor. Through the harbor mouth, by the great Spanish fort, to the land of romance beyond, the land of ebony-haired Spanish girls with flashing eyes, the land of Ponce de Leon and the Conquistadores, the Vagabond goes until the doors of Sever open again. Or, it may be, for a little longer...
...freight on the "Great White Fleet," United Fruit still remains supreme in its field. Last week it was apparent that United Fruit has lost none of the aggressive spirit which has so firmly entrenched it in Central America. In Honduras the company was building a rail-road through the banana country, acting on a concession granted in 1912. The Honduran Government decreed the concession had been cancelled by failure of United to comply with certain terms, ordered work stopped. When United's engineers showed no signs of abandoning the project, President Vincente Mejia Colindres said that Honduran honor and sovereignty...
...almost as good as the meticulous Pierre Roy, but his subjects are different-not bits of ribbon, seashells or birds' eggs. He paints ships, omitting rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms. He does landscapes of jagged tropical mountain ranges, coral-robed natives under tattered banana fronds, and the steel grey lattice work of cranes against a smoky sky. One of his most effective canvases, Trois Mats le Jeanne d'Arc, shows the trim white hull of the Joan of Arc moored at quayside, her three bare poles and spars standing out against lowering storm...
Vastly tickled by his fame, Troubadour Downey has no reluctance in stating that he eats three banana splits daily, has a blue chow named Teddy, sleeps raw* in a double bed, calls his wife "Lover," is covered with moles, bleeds easily when shaving. Superstitious, he still carries a cats-eye ring and holy medals for good luck. Because his name appears in their advertisements, he keeps Camels in his pocket and gives them all to friends. Quick-tempered, he once rebuked a famous polo player who was making too much noise in his night club. Shrewd, when Walter Winchell, famed...