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Last week, after 13 years of testing on animals and men, Chicago's Abbott Laboratories announced that it was putting Dr. Sveda's synthetic sweetener on the market under the trade name Sucaryl Sodium. It is, say the producers, 30 to 50 times as sweet as cane sugar and has no food (caloric) value...
...production is run-of-the mill. Irving Harmon, the featured comedian, succeeds in milking a number of laughs from such standard skits as the phone booth routine, the twice-rented hotel room and the wishing wand gimmick. Harmon, who walks on his heels and wields an educated cane in the best W. C. Fields manner, salvages the comic aspects of the show...
...vast local, national and foreign news-gathering and news-editing machine is Managing Editor Edwin Leland James, 59. Jaunty "Jimmy" James was a star reporter himself during World War I and in postwar Paris. A 35-year veteran of the Times, Virginia-born James still carries a cane and affects what Alexander Woollcott once admiringly called a manner of "extreme truculence, tinged with contempt." Occasionally, in a break from Times tradition, he bursts from his private office off the southwest corner of the city room, waving his cigar and copy and shouting, "This stinks," or something stronger...
...rules of fate and chance, that scarred and willful old warbird, Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, should have been back home in Columbus, Ohio last week with a cane, a bad temper, a book of yellowed clippings and a half interest in a suburban gas station. Instead, after 38 years of derring-do, he was one of America's most famous and successful men-not only a kind of Buffalo Bill of the gasoline age, but an intimate of rulers, and a self-made captain of industry as well...
...brought a variegated collection of sartorial exhibits to Key West and wore them with obvious relish; during a week of beach expeditions, he showed one white pith helmet, one cane, one light yellow sport shirt with orange-and-brown palm trees on its front, one black-and-yellow sport shirt with brown trimmings, and one bright yellow sport shirt with a brown grill design on the front. They were worn with light-colored slacks. Usually, at the beach, the 65-year-old President simply sat in the sun, watching his staff frolic with a volleyball, then changed into bathing trunks...