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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARY ELLEN L. Du VALL...
...German Expressionist Painting, by Peter Selz (University of California, $18.50); German Expressionism and Abstract Art, by Charles L. Kuhn (Harvard University, $8.75); The German Expressionists, by Bernard S. Myers (Praeger...
Nine years in the developing, Mixture Eight was the discovery of Scrimshaw and two other nutrition scientists, Dr. Robert L. Squibb of Rutgers University and Dr. Moises Behar, a Guatemalan pediatrician. It contains 50% corn meal, 35% high-protein sesame meal, 9% cottonseed meal, 3% Kikuyu grass (for vitamin A) and 3% nonfermenting yeast. The mixture cooks into a tasty porridge or a cake that tastes like the familiar tortilla. Last year Scrimshaw tried it on a test group of Guatemalan children. Said Scrimshaw: "The children had swollen bellies, black skin, open sores, were apathetic, suffered from lack of appetite...
...Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy and Director of the Smithsonian, who arrived during the evening from an International Geophysical Year conference in Washington, said of the Soviet satellite, "It is a great achievement on the Russians' part, and I commend them for it. We won the first round with the H-bomb; they won the second with the space satellite...
Most of the patients in Ward L have sore throats, aching muscles, headaches, fever, and nausea and temperatures have ranged reportedly as high as 105 degrees, according to a patient in the ward...