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...symptoms of the disease that brought Dr. Joe Albert Risser hurrying to his office in little (pop. 7,043) Bonham, Texas early on the morning of July 31 sounded a good deal like those of polio. The local druggist had a fever of 101, was pale and sweating, had sharp, constricting pains in his chest muscles. When an examination showed nothing wrong, Dr. Risser gave him a sedative and sent him home. Within four hours, the druggist called again. The pains had stopped, he said, and he felt fine, just a little tired...
...daily newspapers (total circ. 5,350,000); Sunday papers, including the supplement American Weekly, world's biggest (9,374,850) and eight monthly magazines in the U.S., ranging from Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping to American Druggist (total circ. 6 million...
...Alcoholic. Asa Griggs Candler Jr. was rich. In 1886, when he was only six years old, his druggist father secured the soft-drink formula on which he built the Coca-Cola fortune. But, says Asa Candler, "prosperity and affluence present hazards of their own. My story was the old familiar one of falling in with the wrong crowd." He became a drunk...
...months ago, many have come to depend on it as the best source of relief for their agonies. Its virtue for the arthritic lies in continued doses, yet drugstores are stacking up piles of prescriptions for cortisone in their files and giving the customer vague promises. A Long Island druggist nostalgically recalls filling an order of 20 vials of cortisone two months ago with no trouble. Now he has none to give customers, who frantically offer "to pay anything." Some unscrupulous dealers are reported ready to sell what supplies they have at double the recommended price...
Died. Eddy (Edwin Frank) Duchin, 41, pianist-orchestra leader of radio, screen and ballroom, famed for his frilly "society" style; of leukemia, on the day the Navy awarded him a citation for meritorious service in World War II; in Manhattan. Son of a Boston druggist, Duchin disappointed his father by not sticking to the family business. His first wife, Socialite Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs, died in 1937, six days after giving birth to a son. In 1947 he married Maria Teresa Paske-Smith Winn, daughter of a British diplomat...