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Grounds for Arrest. In San Francisco, John Hagerman was spotted on a safecracking job at Fred Hudkins Inc. when he took time out to brew a cup of tea in the company lounge...
...costly and intensive search for what the oldtime druggist called botanicals is based on solid historical fact. Checking an old wives' brew used in Shropshire to bolster failing hearts, William Withering found in 1775 that the active ingredient came from the common foxglove, thus stumbled upon digitalis-still a sovereign remedy. Only 28 years ago, Western-trained physicians in India concluded that there was more magic than myth in ancient snakeroot remedies for high blood pressure and some emotional disturbances, pointed the way to the isolation of reserpine-now flourishing as a multimillion-dollar prescription item. Ephedrine, which...
...bold bet on the future was the latest step in a spectacular career. The unknown son of a small Hamburg book publisher, Springer brooded out the war in the parks of Hamburg (a respiratory ailment kept him out of military service), decided that the traditionally dark, hearty brew of German journalism needed a bit of tang and a fleck of foam. He founded his empire in 1946 on the radio weekly Hör zu! (Listen), is now sole owner of three magazines (and one-third owner of two more), ranging from the gossipy Das Nvue Blatt to the Scientific...
...exhibitions, space is not a major problem. The Museum's big Victorian hallways have much potential area for new displays if the space is used with ingenuity. Director Brew was able to make a reading room for the Library out of some first floor gallery space and still retained every case in the exhibit--and in a better arrangement than before...
...Director is not unaware of these problems. The second floor is now undergoing a revision in exhibition methods that, when finished, will make it as enjoyably instructive as the new first floor installations of North American Indian culture. The other main halls are also slated for eventual revision. Director Brew, says" we modernize the exhibits as soon as we can get the funds--and as soon as we can get the people qualified to sift out the unimportant parts of our cases and add newer and more intresting material...