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...When you take aspirin, take some vitamin K (found in alfalfa, kale, hog liver, etc.) with it; aspirin depletes the body's K supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Antimetabolites | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...apparent that something akin to the corn-hog ratio extends through our whole economic life, and that when we talk prices we are really talking exchange values. Thus, although a ton of steel is selling at its highest peacetime price in two decades, it is exchanging for the smallest quantity of goods and services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts of Life | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Eatin' on the Hog. In the years of political wars the Organization had grown stronger and resistance had diminished. Critics of the boss were never free of the fear that they might find themselves in court-before a Crump judge. There was always the chance of being beaned with a beer bottle at a nightclub, of getting beaten up in a mysterious street fight or simply being slugged by Memphis police, as were two overenthusiastic C.I.O. organizers in 1937. Memphis newspapermen did not forget one election night in 1928, when every reporter in sight was thrown into jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...through in politics. Most retired. Some, like former Governor Gordon Browning, were persuaded. Browning, a big, forceful Huntingdon attorney, got 60,000 votes in Shelby County in 1936 by virtue of the Organization's backing. But after he took office he "began to eat too high on the hog." Cried Crump: "Gordon Browning is the kind of a man who would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence. In the art galleries of Paris there are 27 pictures of Judas Iscariot-none look alike but they all resemble Gordon Browning." In 1938, when Browning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...anyone here seen Henry?" you ask. I'm your man. Saw it in London last January. As one who was exposed to the normal amount of school and college Shakespeare but seldom reads him for pleasure alone, I'll go the whole hog with TIME'S reviewer [April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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