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Like so many research triumphs, this one had been almost an accident. Thirteen years ago a London, Ont. obstetrician named Evan Vere Shute became interested in vitamin E, whose natural sources are in whole grain; he had a hunch that it produced a salutary effect on heart and blood vessels. When a fellow member of his church-his only male patient-complained of tremendous heart pains, Shute put him experimentally on cold, pressed wheat-germ oil. For three months he got relief. When both patient and doctor ran out of funds, the treatment was abandoned...
Remembering how the movies botched The Human Comedy, even though it "gave the movies a very rich terrain to work in," he is meeting filmland feelers about his new book with un-Saroyanesque silence. Says he: "My hunch is that it's nearly a great book. That is something you hate to say, but that's my feeling...
Frank Salerno, 24, a tall, wavy-haired radio man from Denver, went to Yellowknife last year for a vacation. On a hunch, he staked out 18 claims. The payoff...
...getting on towards midnight. Robert Kenneth Taylor, Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Daily Star, suddenly had a hunch. He called the Beechwood Avenue apartment of Fred Rose, the lone Communist in Canada's House of Commons. Taylor, as well as every other newsman in Ottawa, had heard persistent rumors that Rose had been arrested-or would be-in Canada's spy investigation. Now he asked Rose: what about...
...realized that in the past six months the U.S. program of postwar aid to its allies had lost ground. But the informed consensus was not yet ready to agree with the gloomy hunch of Britain's Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps. Last week at Birmingham he said: "It looks as though Congress might turn down the loan...