Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complex, for practical purposes, is really a group of eight different chemicals. They are all found in liver and brewer's yeast; some of them also occur in whole grains. Their chemical names: thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), inositol, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, biotin and folic acid (first described last week by Dr. Roger John Williams of Texas). To keep up B requirements, Dr. Tom Spies of Birmingham, Ala. suggested a daily sandwich of yeast and peanut butter on peeled wheat bread (made from grain with only the thin outer tissue removed...
...musical. For those who suffer from the brassy effects of Glenn Miller's hot and cold treatment of fair-to-middling new tunes (best: Chattanooga Choo Choo), there is plenty of slaloming at Idaho's Sun Valley. Performed by experts (and happily lampooned by liver-lipped Comic Milton Berle), the skiing sequences are a spectacular job of chiaroscuro photography...
...gave an Oriental carnival for the whole town of Nice which lasted a week, and every night banqueted a thousand guests. On every damsel who tickled his fancy he bestowed a handful of precious stones. In 1930, aged 32, Ahmad died of cirrhosis. Gossip said that he had a liver like an old Spanish saddle. Provision for eight wives was made in his will (executed by Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.), but two more turned up whom he had apparently mislaid...
...huge young derelict multimillionaire with a tireless hunger for "tomatoes" (women). He spent his time making bad "artistic" movies, an alcoholic stalactite of his liver, and arranging red-light expeditions at every port of call. Longstreet has a special, affectionate felicity with the dizzy-rich, and Big Boy is one of the most amiable who ever got onto paper...
Only four doctors have been considered eminent enough to win this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel, originator of the insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; Dr. Benjamin Philp Watson, head of Columbia's Sloane Hospital for Women...