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Lowell also lost out on the river yesterday, as Kirkland's crow edged them out in the final preliminaries. Tomorrow, the four-crew finals will be rowed in the Charles basin along a mile course. Starting time...
Mandrake & Aloes. Dr. Carter sought his raw materials in nature. Podophyllum resin, or podophyllin, is the resin of the dried root of the mandrake or May apple; Carter combined this with the dried juice of aloes. He chose as his trademark an overstuffed black crow, which gave a nice zoological balance to Bull Durham's bull on the nation's barns. By 1880 the growing business was incorporated. Millions of pills were shipped all over the U.S. and abroad...
Half a century later, a new advertising technique gave the sexagenarian business an added boost. The ominous crow was retired; the slogan became "Wake up your liver bile!" Jingles urged readers and radio listeners: "When you feel sour and sunk, and the world looks punk . . . Take a Carter's Little Liver Pill." Carter's went on to claim that the increased liver bile would enable the pill-taker to overeat and overindulge in "good times" without morning-after regrets, to wake up "clear-eyed and steady-nerved," "feeling just wonderful," and "alert and ready for work." Copywriters combed...
Osteopathy in the U.S. frequently gets the cold shoulder from public health officials and medical doctors. Last week, for a change, osteopaths had something to crow about. For the first time, under the U.S. Public Health Service program of aid to professional schools, teaching grants ($25,000 and $20,000 respectively) had been awarded to two colleges of osteopathy. The A.M.A. made no objection...
...windows broken and had two quick belts of whisky). As a result of his confusion, he was fined $250 for shooting in a forbidden zone. But worst of all was The Question, which he expected to hear until he died. "Frank," everyone asked, "Frank-what happened to the crow, Frank...