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...Milk of Magnesia. Dr. Howard McCrum Snyder, the President's 75-year-old personal physician, was sleeping in his Connecticut Avenue apartment when the bedside telephone jangled. Over the wire came the voice of Mamie Eisenhower: the President was turning and tossing with a stomachache. What should she do? Old Army Man Snyder was unworried; his patient had a record of stomach complaints. He recommended a small dose of milk of magnesia, turned off his bed light and went back to sleep...
When such a closure struck President Eisenhower early Friday morning, he felt pains in the lower quarter of his abdomen. At the first call from Mamie Eisen hower, Presidential Physician Howard McCrum Snyder, knowing his longtime patient's susceptibility to indigestion, prescribed milk of magnesia ; he figured hope fully that it could do no harm and might bring the upset to a quick end. But as Ike's discomfort became gradually worse, Snyder went to the White House to sit up the rest of the night with him. The President vomited repeatedly, and Dr. Snyder now knew that...
Annette survives unscathed a succes sion of farcical and scabrous sexual ad ventures, and even when, for love of a real monster called Mischa Fox, she swallows some deadly tablets, they turn out to be milk of magnesia. Novelist Murdoch's moral seems to be that only those can get along today who have a talent for forgetting about yesterday...
...were pulled out of a bad financial hole by a terrific run on their Mickey Mouse watches-of which more than 8,000,000 have been sold to date. Since 1929 Mickey's name or picture has appeared on 5,000 different lines of merchandise, from milk of magnesia to a $1,200 diamond bracelet to a radiator cap, and has sold more than $250 million worth of goods...
...Dangers of Huff-Huff. A typical uncommitted delegate is Russell E. (for Eggman) Crawford, of Montgomery County, which adjoins Philadelphia on the west and north. Crawford is secretary and a director of the Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co. (200 employees), a respected community leader and a member of 39 organizations, including the Masons (33rd Degree), the Rotary, the American Legion, the Philadelphia Union League, the Jefferson fire company, the board of trustees of the Y.W.C.A. and the Republican Party...