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...Abbott and Lieut. John Randolph Gepfert report using medicated human blood plasma as a burn dressing. They got the idea from the light yellow blood serum which exudes from any deep burn and acts as a soothing, protective coating. They mixed blood plasma with a little sulfanilamide and some gum tragacanth to make a paste, used it on twelve second-degree burns. "The results were very definitely better than those obtained by the use of any one of the many methods in vogue during the past two years...
Green Light. In London, the Royal Anthropological Institute set the worried Daily Mirror at ease, announced as its considered opinion that the habit of gum-chewing, popularized by U.S. troops, would not affect the British profile...
...time off, Tracy plays tennis with his son Johnny, clacks with his boyhood crony, Pat O'Brien, talks with Victor Fleming about horses and about the war career of their close friend Clark Gable. A nonstop gum chewer and candy nibbler who describes himself as "a box of chocolates broadened out into a character actor," Tracy has recently lost weight (8 Ib.) because war has drastically curtailed his formal supply of sweets...
Love is a word common to our everyday vocabulary. Some pronounce it carelessly, others caressingly. Some treat it lightly, some reverently. Some write it on a piece of paper and look upon the written word with awe. Others just go on chewing their gum and, having finished, deposit it with nonchalance upon that very piece of paper...
George Jessel helpfully reminded them that even when spelled right their name sounded "too much like crumb, dumb and gum." He suggested that they cabbage the name of his good friend, then the New York World-Telegram's drama critic, Robert Garland. One Gumm sister, aged 11, decided to make a clean sweep. Hoagy Carmichael's Judy was a song she liked just then, so Frances Gumm has been Judy Garland ever since...