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...vomiting it brings on. Since his illness, he has eaten nothing but mashed carrots, peas and toast with tea. He has never been able to hold food for more than 40 minutes, and now the time is down to ten minutes-not long enough for his digestive system to extract the nourishment his body needs. Standing 5 ft. 6 in. and always slight (never over 135 Ibs.), he is now down to 76 Ibs. He sleeps fitfully, twitching all the time. Lately the hiccups have speeded up from 60 to 70 a minute...
Some extremely dangerous drugs have been promoted for reducing, said Dr. Stormont. Thyroid extract, still popular with some physicians, should not be; it can do grave harm, and there is no reason for giving it, since an underactive thyroid is very rarely the cause of obesity. Also sharply condemned: other hormones, such as pituitary extract (they have nothing to do with overweight), laxatives and dinitrophenol (it raises the temperature so that "the obese are literally frying in their own fat," and it causes cataracts...
Guiness himself is superb as a wide-eyed young chemist who discovers an extraordinary fabric which can never spot and never wear out. Always slightly underplaying his role, he manages to extract every bit of humor from an essentially unfunny situation...
Shortly after Mankiewicz met Cicero, I turned up strong circumstantial evidence that Bazna, last July, was attempting to extract money from Soviet agents-including the chief of the MVD in Turkey. I informed the Turkish Sūretė, which trailed Bazna, arrested him and held him for . . . interrogations . . . He was released for want of documentary proof of his current espionage activities...
Standard procedure of the investigating committee, according to Fairbank, is to extract from the IPR files letters of the accused which seem to suggest "ulterior motives...