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...portrayal of a broken-down ballplayer who compresses his whole wretched life into a drunken, sobbing outburst about his inability to hit a curve ball on the outside corner. His table partner is an aging, embittered divorcee (Vivien Leigh), who reacts with exquisite distaste to a recital of his gastric misadventures in Mexico. Many scenes later, in a fit of sexual combustion, she beats Marvin nearly insensible with the heel of her gilded slipper...
...riveted on a spot 400 ft. below, where the winding asphalt track curled like a thin, black snake between two green hills. There, any second now, the leading car would appear. The noise came first: the rising nasal whine of a V-8 engine echoing off the hills; the gastric grunts as its driver worked down through the gears from fourth to second for a 60-m.p.h. curve; the throaty snarl as he stepped on the throttle, flashed into the open at 90 m.p.h. and vanished around still another bend...
...dozen years, Dr. Richard Doll, Britain's most famed physician-statistician, had been testing and comparing a dozen treatments for gastric ulcers (those in the stomach proper). Sadly he had concluded that no drugs helped an ulcer to heal, though peace of mind, bed rest and nonsmoking did some good. Then a drug company offered Dr. Doll something called carbenoxolone, which is a chemical modification of a substance extracted from licorice...
...London's Central Middlesex Hos pital he gave carbenoxolone (Biogas-trone) to outpatients who had severe gastric ulcers. When more than two-thirds of them showed substantial healing of their ulcers on their X rays, Dr. Doll was still doubtful. It was all a mistake, he decided, or "a statistical sport." He spent more wearisome months repeating the test on another batch of patients-and he got the same results. There was, he concluded, something to licorice extract after...
...Doll's research showed that car benoxolone has no effect on the more common duodenal ulcers, and it has some unwanted side effects on gastric ulcer patients; about 20% suffered from water retention, and others suffered from a rise in blood pressure. Both groups needed a second drug to control these symptoms. If a gastric "ulcer" patient gets no benefit from the licorice medicine, says Dr. Doll, this may be a desirable early warning that he should have surgery...