Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phony doctor (in real life a member of Actors Equity) slips into a white smock, faces the camera, and the biggest gasoline-torch medicine show in history has begun. A cigarette is soothing to the T-Zone. A miracle pill will start the natural flow of liver bile. Try a certain elixir for worn-out blood-and a toothpaste for a brave new cavity-free world...
...tablespoons of liquid Geritol . . . contains twice the iron in a pound of calf's liver. Don't let TIRED BLOOD drag you down...
...down 72 planes* during World War I, collected a chestful of medals (including Britain's Victoria Cross. France's Croix de guerre), later became an oil-firm vice president, was named honorary air marshal of Canada while recruiting flyers during World War II; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Palm Beach, Fla. Billy Bishop scorned stunt flying, grimly dived his single-seat Nieuport Scout to within 50 yards of his prey before firing a short, deadly burst from his Lewis gun. He shot down 47 planes in his first five months of battle, made a hero...
...months later set the 1920s roaring at the decade's wildest divorce suit, in which she testified that Daddy (a "grey-haired old wowser," Damon Runyon reported) sometimes crawled around making "funny noises," was inordinately fond of a pet African honking gander; of a brain hemorrhage and liver failure after a fall in her Manhattan apartment. Peaches lost her divorce suit, but after Daddy died (1934) won $154,971 as his legal widow, later was married and divorced three times...
...publicity, wrote an anguished letter to the A.M.A. Journal complaining that the lay magazines had gone overboard and had neglected to mention the dangers of these diets for people not under a doctor's care. Main problem: drastic reduction of protein foods can lead to cirrhosis of the liver and vitamin-deficiency diseases. (The "fabulous formula" is essentially the same as a diet designed to produce liver disease and hardening of the arteries in laboratory experiments with animals.) Cutting down on proteins is especially dangerous for those in middle age and beyond: they need more protein, not less; also...