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Died. Joseph Wilshire, 71, former board chairman of Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee, Fleischmann's yeast and gin, Royal gelatin and baking powder) ; after long illness ; in Greenwich, Conn. Beginning as a $1-a-week yeast packer for Fleischmann's, he became its president 27 years later, stayed on as president when it merged with Standard Brands. He built up perhaps the country's finest collection of coaches, phaetons, cutters and sleighs, which he habitually used for traveling about his Greenwich estate...
...time. Blood plasma, the clear portion of human blood, is better. It contains protein molecules of a definite size and shape that keep it from leaking out of the blood vessels. An emergency plasma substitute needs some harmless substance with the same sort of molecules. Several such substances, including gelatin, Dextran (a complex sugarlike compound) and PVP (polyvinyl pyrrolidone), a synthetic made from acetylene, do the job to some extent, but none is both plentiful and entirely satisfactory. Okra for Shock. One new idea is an extract of the slippery vegetable, okra. Dr. Hiram B. Benjamin of Marquette Medical School...
...think it is none of these. Obviously Mr. Rickey is little concerned with Princeton, having just accepted a job in Pittsburgh, some 200 miles further from Princeton than Brooklyn. Howard Johnson ice-cream is allegedly full of gelatin, a commodity detrimental in large quantities to growing boys. As for the benefit of eating from plates--obviously trays are just as healthy and pleasant or the Army wouldn't have used them...
...year they had 62 students, the next year 78. By last week the Foreign Student Summer Project seemed to be a solid M.I.T. institution. Among its alumni: a West German who is building Bavaria's first electronic computer, a Norwegian who has discovered a new method of making gelatin out of seaweed, a Finn who has become editor of Finland's leading architectural magazine...
Just Desserts? In Pueblo, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Halstead complained that an old jape had reached Colorado: someone had carefully scrubbed their bathtub, then filled it with 30 gallons of cherry-flavored gelatin...