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...their experiments, Drs. Wolff, James D. Hardy and Helen Goodell tried a mixture of two ounces of 95% grain alcohol in a glass of ginger ale on themselves, found that it raises the "threshold" of pain 45% for two hours. Two ounces of 90-proof whiskey will turn the same trick. If a five-grain tablet of aspirin is added, any pain can be dulled for four hours. Dr. Wolff urged his colleagues to return to the use of whiskey for "persons suffering continuously," especially cancer victims. Said he: "It is cheaper than morphine. ... Of course alcohol is habit-forming...
...rising profits, for today the cured meats account for less than 2% of earnings. Biggest money-maker is chewing gum, which Brother-in-law F. E. Barbour handles. Other big items are strained foods, coffee, peanut butter, soup. Dropped along the way are tomato juice (1940), biscuits (1940), ginger ale, fish bait...
...Louis Browns, the only major-league club that has never won a pennant, met the Detroit Tigers, perennial front runners and the defending champions of the American League, with the result that the Little Brownies, full of ginger, beat the Big Tigers...
Hottest cry of all came from crinkle-headed "Dry" Thomas Magnay, member from Gateshead, an accountant and ardent bowler, who drinks only water and dry ginger ale. Shouted he: "All things that are sweet and reasonable and Christian are being more and more jeered at and flouted. . . . We know that art and literature have been befouled. ... In literature every man is a cad and every woman a vamp. . . . We have the devotees of St. Vitus' dance called Jazz . . . volplaning down the descending scale. You hear crooners breaking their hearts every night-if anybody broke their necks I should...
...Ginger Rogers did not "gush a tribute to her mother." She gave a heartwarmingly real and simple word of appreciation and homage to her nearest and dearest, which moistened the eyes of the toughest audience in the world...