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Slaker. In Elmira, N.Y., thirsty Merrill E. Whiting looked around the house for something to drink, found, downed -and survived - a mixture of turpentine, varnish remover, lighter fluid, camphor, shaving lotion...
...orders flowed in and competitors began a wild but fruitless campaign to discover Magee's secret. A few weeks ago O'Connor gleefully put it into commercial production, a process which involved running an electric current through a 300-gal. stainless steel vat full of the perilous fluid...
Also among the first talks will be a discussion by Howard W. Emmons, associate professor of Engineering Science and chairman of the department's colloquium committee on "Some Problems of Fluid Mechanics." and an address by Professor W. Prager of Brown University dealing with "An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Plasticity...
Vandenberg will fight for the Geneva conference, even though he thinks the time is unpropitious because the world situation is so fluid; he would keep the President's powers to make agreements; he is opposed to the idea of requiring congressional ratification. Vandenberg, nevertheless, would like to have a closer look at State's program. As a young man he wrote a phrase of which he is proud: "Unshared idealism is a menace." In other words, other nations must share U.S. ideals before they are allowed to share U.S. markets...
...investigation's long-range aim: to isolate the cold virus and develop a vaccine. Each guest, on admission, snuffs a fluid up his nose. About 45%, used as controls, snuff only a harmless broth; the rest get virus-containing nasal washings from people with colds. Only about one-fourth of all the subjects actually come down with colds. Thus far, the doctors have no important new findings to report, but they think they have definitely established that wet feet, exposure to cold, etc. do not necessarily cause colds. The mischief is done by sneezers...