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...fats in the diet affect artery disease and the risk of heart attacks, practicing physicians are not waiting for final answers. More and more doctors believe that it is wise anyway to reduce the amount of fats and related substances, notably cholesterol, in their patients' bloodstreams. Last week Cincinnati's. William S. Merrell Co. announced that it is start ing general distribution of a cholesterol-cutting chemical just approved (for prescription sale only) by the Food and Drug Administration. The chemical: triparanol, trade-named MER/2^. The makers claim that a single capsule daily will drop the blood cholesterol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cutting the Cholesterol | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...security analyst in the Minneapolis brokerage firm of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, quickly impressed clients with the way he could spot a company's potential earning power. With a small group of backers, his first venture was buying a big block of stock in Cincinnati's Balcrank Inc., a maker of equipment for service stations. When his group sold out a year later, it almost doubled its money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Rapid Riser | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

When Riklis' group began buying into Gruen Watch Co. and gained seven seats on the twelve-seat board, a squabble broke out. Riklis got out, saying: "I do not like to fight." His group bought into Cincinnati's Rapid Electrotype Co., a maker of mats and printing plates that was worth $3.800,000 and had liquid assets of $1,900,000. Riklis then issued debentures to raise $6,500,000, used part of it to get the controlling interest in another firm he was acquiring-Chicago's American Colortype Co., a producer of color plates. His next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Rapid Riser | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...speed afoot, it has been hazarded that if a race were to be run between him and an oak tree, the smart money would ride on the oak. Sportswriters fondly recall his beer-drinking exploits, like the time he hopped off a Cincinnati Reds bus during a brief stop to buy a case of cold brew, downed two bottles while getting his change. Former teammates remember being unable to get into his hotel room because he had stuffed towels under the door, turned on the shower's hot water full blast, and while resting on his bed, converted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stout Steve | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...purists, Johns Hopkins University's Dr. David Bodian said that there should be a clear showing, as in the Salk 1954 field trial, based on different paralysis rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated. This was exasperating to both the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin and Lederle Laboratories' Dr. Herald R. Cox, developers of two of three U.S. live vaccines. It is an impossible requirement, snapped Dr. Sabin, because by its very nature the oral, weakened virus is designed to multiply in the human digestive tract. It is bound to spread to unvaccinated contacts (especially close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Many Polio Vaccines? | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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