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...Necessary. He may steal your butts, scratch your records, drink your liquor, date your girl, and rattle your tender nerves; but he is Necessary. When choosing yours, be sure to experiment carefully beforehand. After all is said, the Neanderthal method may prove the surest. Chacun a son gout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Bedfellows | 2/15/1957 | See Source »

...were becoming blurred. It was to his advantage as a writer, for he saw men dressed for their roles in the sharp hierarchy of a ship's company. Writing was agony to him, and he was paid only £20 for his first book. He was immobilized by gout, but the fancy cooking of his wife, plain Jessie George, says Author Jean-Aubry in a very French aside, made things bearable. Isolated in his cottage in Kent, where he could sniff the sea, Conrad sometimes despaired of his writing (he thought of becoming a pearl fisherman or a Suez Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pole with British Tar | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Pathet Lao is Prince Souphanouvong, a half-brother of the Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, and because both brothers have sworn fidelity to aging, gout-crippled King Sisavang Vong, the Laotians have been inclined to dismiss Pathet Lao as une affaire de famille. Since August the moonfaced, Paris-educated princes have been going about the capital of Vientiane arm in arm, sipping champagne together, and promising an early settlement of their "family affair." Says trusting Prince Souvanna Phouma: "My brother has never been a Communist, only a misled patriot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Conquest by Negotiation | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...truth is that, for generations, medical science has tried every imaginable dietary trick for arthritis and related diseases and found none of them effective except in gout. The Federal Trade Commission plans to have Alexander up for a hearing next week about his claims and promotion. But the popularity of his book is an accurate reflection of the prevalence of the disease and the despondency of its victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Those Aching Joints | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Arthritis Due to Gout. The one rheumatic disease for which the cause is known, up to a point (the body's inability to dispose of purines without creating an excess of uric acid), and the only one for which diet is important. About 95% of victims are males. The disease smolders indefinitely, but is marked by acute flare-ups with excruciating pain in swollen, inflamed joints. In rare cases, it can threaten life by depositing uric acid crystals in the kidneys or heart. Sufferers must avoid foods rich in purines-yeast, herring roe, sardines, asparagus, and many organ meats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Those Aching Joints | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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