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When Author Seton kills off Father & Mother Cameron in a few swift pages of cholera and hemorrhages, kindly Mexicans adopt Fey. Later, handsome, rascally Terry Dillon finds Fey a helpful partner in selling Dr. Dillon's Extra Special Elixir, a snake oil whose chief ingredient is river water. Said the Indians: "The Great Spirit meant you for a better destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Snake Oil | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Leeches for Fighters. In his saddened shop, a remodeled brownstone house on upper Lexington Avenue, twelve expert elixir and pill makers kept busy filling a stream of prescriptions which has now passed the 1,280,000 mark. Unlike most modern drugstores, J. Leon Lascoff & Son sells nothing but chemicals, prescriptions, biologicals and a few special cosmetics. Within these limits, Lascoff's pride is to keep everything ("if we don't have it, nobody does")-e.g., a large, dignified, white porcelain jar of leeches, a commodity still in some demand for pugilists' shiners, stands just inside the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drugs Without Soda | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Following antique herbals, many housewives concocted their own elixir of hips. Widespread result: they found themselves not only spooning out vitamin C to their bairns, but, as corks popped in pantries, indulging in a potent homebrew. Amused but impressed, one British medical journal observed: "We may even see hip syrup competing with orange juice after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elixir of Hips | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...Octogenarian Bradley it was an elixir. Winner of four Kentucky Derbies, he has been living for the day when his green & white silks will again "get there the quickest," and thereby establish a record not likely to be broken. In Bimelech, whom he named after the Biblical warrior, Abimelech (dropping the A because it is an old Bradley custom to B-name all horses), Colonel Bradley has great faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mr. Big | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Regional Planning School has up and died--again. Last time was in 1936, when such a hubbub arose, and so much criticism fell upon the Administration from influential sources, that the corpse had to be disinterred a year later, revived with a liberal shot of University funds. But the elixir has been potent for only three years, and now, it seems, Regional Planning is slipping back into limbo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLANNERS WAKE | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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