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Beriberi is an unfamiliar disease in the western world and Vitamin B 1 is so widely dispersed among staple articles of diet that B 1 deficiency is not especially common. In the lay mind it has been overshadowed lately by the "anti-infective" Vitamin A (fish oil, spinach, carrots, milk, butter, etc.), the anti-scurvy Vitamin C (orange juice, lettuce, celery, etc.) and the antirachitic Vitamin D (fish oil, egg yolks, irradiated foods, etc.). These are of acknowledged importance to human health. But the fact is that doctors are using "the forgotten vitamin," B 1 , in clinical treatment of sick...
About one child in ten is a "strephosymbolic" (twister of symbols). He tends to see or remember things backwards. Most common form of this peculiarity is to read was for saw. Other strephosymbolics are "mirror writers," who write backwards, from right to left. This phenomenon still baffles psychologists. Most widely accepted theory is that of famed Psychopathologist Samuel Torrey Orton of Manhattan. He holds that reading & writing are controlled by one side of the brain. Normally one cerebral hemisphere is dominant, but when that is not the case, the brain may picture an image in reverse, cause the individual...
...announcement was made before the new group had even chosen a name, its working plans were fairly definite. Each man has promised a new play for next season. (First production will be a play about Abraham Lincoln by Sherwood.) Each is pledged to put $10,000 into a common fund. Each will get regulation stage and movie royalties, share the general profit & loss of production...
When Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm opens in a satiny broadcasting studio, surviving members of the common-drinking-cup generation may get something of a wrench. And when Shirley tells them, with well-rehearsed and gleefully interpolated chuckles,' that...
...Freshman class will parade its talent in an another "amateur" show tomorrow night unlike the one given last fall, prizes will be given from the remaining profit of the first Yardling dance. The performance is to be given in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:15 o'clock Sunday and will be judged by three officers of the University, among them Colonel Apted...