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...kind of newspaper assignment Gene Fowler relished in the 1920s was to be told by his managing editor to find a deserving old gentleman for a monkey-gland rejuvenation operation. When a scholarly greybeard named Mr. Bacon came into the New York American's offices primed with schemes of calendar reform and admitted, conversationally, to two carnal thoughts a year "at the most," Fowler knew he had his man. He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon...
...monkey-gland business was a little unusual for W. R. Hearst, who never knowingly shook the hand of anyone remotely connected with vivisection. Even the rats at San Simeon were trapped in cages and transported several miles to be released. "The Chief" was less tender toward his editors. The best story of the fear he inspired in them is probably apocryphal. One frequently terrified editor, "Bugs" Tuttle, begged an assistant to open a telegram one day. "Your mother is dead," read the message. "Thank God!" Bugs Tuttle reportedly said. "I thought it was a wire from Mr. Hearst...
...Misfits (Seven Arts; United Artists) is a dozen pictures rolled into one. Most of them, unfortunately, are terrible. It is Playwright Arthur Miller's first picture and the late Clark Gable's last. It is a routine gland opera, an honest but clumsy western, a pseudosociological study of the American cowboy in the last, disgusting stages of obsolescence, a raucous ode to Reno and the horrors of divorce, a ponderous disquisition on man's inhumanity to man, woman and various other animals, an obtuse attempt to write sophisticated comedy, a woolly lament for the loss of innocence...
ACTH is produced by the pea-sized pituitary gland at the base of the brain. It seems to be a hormone's hormone; when the blood carries it to the adrenal glands on the kidneys, it stimulates the production of many other hormones that regulate vital functions of the body, including proper utilization of foods. The natural substance is extremely expensive because only minute amounts can be extracted from the pituitary glands of slaughtered animals. Dr. Hofmann does not promise that his success will lead to cheap synthetic ACTH manufactured in large quantities for medical...
...many cases after British Urologist Thomas Moore diagnosed a man's illness as obstruction caused by overgrowth of the prostate gland, the patient's wife exclaimed: "I'm sure I have the same trouble-I have just the same symptoms." To laymen, who think that the relatively useless prostate is the male's exclusive property, this sounds silly. Even doctors, who know from their anatomy books that glands around a woman's urethra are analogous to the male organ, usually dismiss the diagnosis as implausible...