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...charter, and perhaps last, standing member of the Lower Montgomery Street Olive or Onion Society, established in 1956 in search of the perfect civilized martini, I cannot believe San Franciscans have come to embrace a cactus distillate requiring several buffering additives to become palatable. Herb would never have allowed it. BRUCE A. STEELE, Scottsdale, Ariz...
...known for playing Andy Brown in the early-50s TV series "Amos 'n' Andy." In early-talkies Hollywood he had worked as a sound technician for Christy Studios, helped write a series of black-cast shorts based on the stories of Octavius Roy Cohen and appeared in all four Herb Jeffries black Westerns of the late 30s. In 1940 he wrote and appeared in the cheapie black-cast horror movie "Son of Ingagi," He was then hired by Dallas exhibitor Al Sack to write and direct films, apparently with a minimum of front-office interference. In the 40s he made...
...Internet Movie Database identifies Herb Jeffries as being of "Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian & Irish descent," and notes that one of his five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
...JOHN'S-WON'T The herbal remedy St.-John's-wort appears to be no more effective than a placebo for the treatment of moderately severe depression, according to an NIH-sponsored clinical trial. But some psychiatrists and advocates of the supplement say the herb may still work for milder forms of the disease...
...much kava is too much? The American Botanical Council recommends that people who have liver trouble or who drink a lot of alcohol stay away from the herb. Everybody else should be careful not to take kava every day for more than four weeks straight and not to exceed the recommended dosage. In Germany, where herbal supplements are scrutinized much more closely than in America, 60 mg to 120 mg of kavalactone (the active ingredient in kava) is considered a reasonable daily dose. When you buy a kava product, be sure to check the kavalactone concentration listed on the label...