Word: gums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memories was a reception at which self-possessed Madame Chiang Kai-shek sat on a dais, received a hundred-odd noted filmsters playing bit parts. Among them: Joan Bennett, first to be presented; Marlene Dietrich, who hovered long at the Madame's side; Gary Cooper, who chewed gum and stood with his hands in his pockets; Fred Astaire, who blushed when she spoke to him; Producer David Selznick's wife Irene and Orson Welles, who gazed gravely and long (see cut). In Hollywood Mme. Chiang spoke to an overflow crowd at the Hollywood Bowl, held what...
...Cross Field Director Thomas S. Montgomery could hardly miss being nicknamed "Tiny"-he stands 6 ft. 8 ½ in., weighs a whopping 275 Ib. Too oversized to enlist, he squeezed his bulk into a Red Cross uniform, soon became noted on Guadalcanal for his frontline chant: "Chewing gum, candy, popcorn, soda pop. What'll you have, boys?" Wandering about the jungle alone, Montgomery recently met a group of marines. Said he: "Aren't we pretty close to the front lines now, fellows?" Said a marine: "Front lines, hell. They're half a mile behind us. This...
...Yale's Laboratory of Physiology, Dr. de Rezende developed a simpler glue: a solution of gum acacia (fortified with vitamin B). But despite this glue, he noted that a severed nerve tends to retract both ways so that connection of the ends is still difficult. This tension can be avoided, Dr. de Rezende found, by inserting a nerve graft between the severed ends. On the legs of monkeys, rabbits and dogs he performed some 60 nerve-grafting operations, taking his grafts from dead animals of the same species. Nearly half his operations he termed successful: the animals regained good...
...Indio, Calif., where the temperature ran as high as 122° in the shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing gum, cigarets...
Party. In Denver, restaurant burglars made off with six cartons of candy, two pies, the contents of seven gum machines, one juke-box record: Why Don't We Do This More Often...