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...assembly-line job. A lot of technical competence, a certain amount of talent and a staggering amount of time and money have been marshaled into a quiet, polished frenzy about nothing whatever. The picture presents a forgivably languid Fred MacMurray as a pearl smuggler. He marries deep-chested Ava Gardner just in time to lose track of her when the Japanese take Singapore. After the war he comes back to look for her and for some pearls he hid in an electric fan. He and his contraband manage a relatively placid reunion, having to contend only with British...
...worker bee has a life span of only three months. But a queen bee lives for five-years-20 times as long. Biochemist Thomas S. Gardner of Nutley, NJ. thought that if he could find out how the queen does it, he might have a valuable clue to the secret of a long life...
...suspected that one reason for a queen bee's long life might be her rich diet: royal jelly. Royal jelly is exceptionally rich in pantothenic acid (a B vitamin believed to prevent grey hair), and in pyridoxin and biotin (also B vitamins). Dr. Gardner mixed up a brew of these three ingredients and a substance known as sodium yeast nucleate, and fed it to some fruit flies. The exciting result: the Gardner mixture increased the fruit flies' average life span 46%; pantothenic acid alone increased...
Last week Gardner reported his discovery to the American Chemical Society, convened in Manhattan. He pointed out, significantly, that pantothenic acid is found in considerable amounts in young animal tissues and in milk (babies' food). He has not yet tried his experiment on animals or human beings, but he thinks it may be interesting when he does...
...same time, the Board announced the appointments of Richard N. Gardner '48, of Adams House and New York City, as sports editor, and Richard B. Steuer '47, of Dunster House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, as co-circulation manager...