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...previous case. If it had not been for an alert doctor who spotted the trouble when she was born, Andrea Sinai's chances of surviving would have been slim-she might have choked on her first bottle. As it was, she had to be fed with a medicine dropper. Often she choked and started to turn blue. Her mother hardly ever knew a good night's sleep; she kept waking to hear the reassurance of the child's raucous mouth breathing. Because her mouth was always dry, Andrea's food didn't taste good...
...been outraged, said Lyons, by Winchell's attacks on people. For example, Winchell had insinuated in his column that President Truman was tipsy when he wrote his insulting letter to the Washington Post's music critic, Paul Hume. "I knew this was untrue," said name-dropper Lyons, "because I lunched with the President a few hours after he wrote the letter, and know personally that he had not been drinking." Not long after, Columnist Winchell slyly turned on Lyons when he was threatened with jail for refusing to name the source of news items in his column...
...Name Dropper. In El Paso, after applying for U.S. citizenship, Ng Wah Yee changed his name to Chan...
Sheaffer has been learning the reasons since 1908, when, as a ten-year-old, he watched his father, Walter A. Sheaffer, experiment with messy medidne-dropper-filled pens in his Fort Madison jewelry shop. Father Sheaffer got the bright idea of putting the dropper inside, scraped up $35,000 in capital, and in 1913 started his company. Craig, after two years in college, hurried back to the business. In 1921, his father took a big risk. When most pens sold for $2.75, he brought out one for $8.75-with a "lifetime" guarantee. The gamble paid off, and Sheaffer became...
...sale in drugstores for 35? to 40?, the kit consists of a test tube, a dropper and two reagent tablets. To five drops of urine and ten drops of water, add one tablet. If the solution turns blue, there is no sugar in the urine. If it turns any other color (most likely orange), there is sugar in the urine and a suspicion of diabetes. After that, the next step is to see a doctor...