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Every year the colon-conscious U.S. public spends $100 million on laxatives-the biggest seller, after vitamins, in the drug field. Most of the laxatives people buy and take are intestine-irritating chemicals which many doctors denounce: cascara, aloes, resins, castor oil, phenolphthalein and salts. Such concoctions often aggravate digestive trouble, or start trouble if none exists...
...Ferrer and Beatrice Pearson deserve great credit for their natural and absorbing performances, particularly Ferrer, who the movie magazines tell us hates acting worse than castor oil. Also memorable are the performances turned in by Susan Douglas and Richard Hilton, the two young stars who play the parts of the doctor's children...
Antidote. In Kobe, Japan, when Pickpocket Yoshio Abe complained of a stomachache, police gave him a dose of castor oil, recovered the stolen watch he had swallowed...
...Castor Oil. Put this way, as it often was, the question was ridiculous. Director Hoover's G-men were not a strong-arm squad of club-swinging blackshirts; nobody was fed castor oil, or taken off in the middle of the night to be liquidated. Certainly the FBI could not be accused of making reckless arrests...
...Administration witnesses hardly seemed to be trying. Both Treasury Secretary John Snyder and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Thomas McCabe were plainly reluctant to discuss price controls. Said Secretary Snyder: "I have stated many times that I am not in favor of price controls. Nor am I in favor of castor oil. But if I've got an ailment and it's going to save my life, then I'll take...