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Brill, known in his Freshman year as "Brill the Barrel" and last year as "Liquid Lew," explained that he "took the vow" one Sunday morning early this summer. Advising the pledge for all his fellow students as a cure-all that really works, he pointed to himself as a staggering example: "Before I decided to follow Babson, what was I?" he asked. "A nobody. And now look at me: I'm chairman of the Brill-for-Babson club of Harvard University...
...union of husband and wife" is understood and sought by the persons to be married. Candidates must sign a statement promising "to make every effort" to realize that ideal. Every clergyman is further required to "use all diligence in preserving the peace and concord of every family within his cure," and "whenever the security or permanence of any home is imperiled . . . it shall be the duty of the parties to such dissension to lay before him the causes and circumstances thereof, and it shall be his duty to labor by all godly means to restore them to charity with each...
After a patient wait, death came last week to Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist, physician, philosopher, poet, ironist, historian, raconteur. At 61, he died of chronic leukemia, a slow-moving, mysterious disease of the blood for which there is no known cure...
Since the beginning of World War II British doctors, fearing another epidemic, have sought a quick, simple cure for the disease. Last week in the Lancet, Dentist John James Duncan King of the University Field Laboratories in Sheffield, England announced that he had found one: nicotinic acid...
Nicotinic acid, one of the elements of the Vitamin B complex, is found in liver, yeast, milk, green vegetables, fish and lean meat. It is a cure for pellagra, a diet-deficiency disease common in the southern U. S. but virtually unknown in Britain. Since the filmy, bleeding gums of trench mouth are similar to the symptoms of early pellagra, Dr. King had a hunch that trench mouth, too, might be caused by nicotinic acid deficiency which broke down gum tissue, paved the way for bacterial invasion. So he fed small amounts of the acid dissolved in water...