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Parking Problem. In Anniston, Ala., J. E. Moose put together plastic, nonstick chewing gum...
...scene a new kind of public character: a U.S. Senator who was also a Hollywood star. Ex-Congressman Rogers (who resigned to join the Army in 1944) prepared to: 1) run for Senator from California; 2) play the title role in a Warner Bros, movie about his late, gum-chewing, rope-twirling father...
...School's Dr. Leonard S. Fosdick & co-workers may have found an answer. Reporting in the Journal of Dental Research, the experimenters released some long-awaited data on acid-decreasing synthetic vitamin K (2-methyl-1, 4-napthoquinone). They hit on the idea of spreading it on chewing gum. For the experiment, 55 Northwestern students faithfully chomped vitamin K-coated gum for ten minutes after each meal. Another 45 chewed untreated gum. A third group chewed nothing...
Result: after 18 months, the vitamin K chewers had 60% to 90% fewer new cavities than the others. The experimenters noted with interest that vitamin K gum seemed more effective than highly publicized fluorinated drinking water (TIME, April...
...skipper is physically and spiritually strong. . . . Overpowering events . . . have given the grinning, gum-chewing Missourian new stature, new dignity, new confidence-but no pomp. [He] is less of an autocratic figure than any White House incumbent since Taft. There is no 'crackdown' in his system. Even those who have the hatchet out for Truman . . . acknowledge his determined honesty. . . ." There were those who sought to smear him, said Considine, but Harry Truman was a man's kind of man, as American as ham & eggs...