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...what had they swallowed? Best clue was that Donna had eaten no flounder and had not got sick. Dr. Singley remembered having read in medical school a 1945 report of sodium nitrite poisoning in New York City. A colleague clinched it: he had just reread the same story in Berton Roueché's Eleven Blue Men, reprinted from The New Yorker. Simultaneously, unknown to the Camden team, doctors across the Delaware River were giving methylene blue to women who had eaten flounder in a downtown restaurant...
...from the table and dumped their filleted flounder into the garbage can. Housewives who were saving it in the refrigerator got rid of it in a hurry. Hospital switchboards lit up and were jammed for hours. Emergency rooms filled fast. About 300 people who said they had eaten flounder got treatment: some were hypochondriacs, most were mild cases, a few were severely poisoned. As far as officials knew, there were no more deaths...
...Originally named Kamuzu (the little root) because a medicine man had cured his mother's barrenness with a root herb, he later took the name of Hastings from a missionary he admired. When only 13 he ran away from home. At first his parents thought he had been eaten by a lion, learned only months later that he had walked barefoot 1,000 miles to the gold mines of South Africa. There, working by day and studying by night, he accumulated a little learning and a little money, with the help of a Methodist bishop made...
...Starches have been downgraded too drastically in the U.S. dietary revolution -some of them are not "empty calories, ' but rich in vitamins, and should be eaten to make up the calorie deficit caused by cutting down on fats...
...Thurber's tale, the wolves finally tied up all the rabbits in a cave. The other animals noticed they were missing and began to ask questions. The wolves replied that the rabbits had been eaten, and since they had been eaten it was a purely internal matter. "They were escapists," said the wolves, "and, as you know, this is no world for escapists...