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LaLanne may come on strong but the ladies apparently love every groaning, grunting minute of it. Each weekday morning he trims something like a ton of excess fat off 15 million women in 80 U.S. cities...
...sounds few enough. But so many Americans took Chloromycetin that by 1964 the American Medical Association counted 298 U.S. cases of serious reaction, approximately half of them fatal. The California State Department of Public Health has adopted a compromise fatality rate of one in 60,000. Since 40 million Americans are believed to have taken the drug, that would work out at 666 deaths...
Although the diseases against which Chloromycetin is clearly superior are far more common in tropical and underdeveloped countries than in the U.S., most of Parke, Davis' huge sales of the antibiotic (up to $86 million in 1960, $72 million in 1966) have been in domestic prescriptions. For what? Far too often, testified Dr. Best, for the common cold and similar viral infections (for which no drug is of any use), and against many bacterial infections for which safer drugs are just as effective. Dr. Dameshek added acne to the list of conditions for which Chloromycetin should not be prescribed...
Died. Viscount Kemsley, 84, one of Britain's most powerful press lords until he sold most of his empire to Lord Thomson for $14 million in 1959; following an asthma attack; in Monte Carlo. Born James Gomer Berry, son of a Welsh town alderman, he and his brother William started their careers at the turn of the century with a sixpence monthly, Advertising World; with their profits they built a publishing empire that grew to 70-odd magazines and 31 newspapers, including London's Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times...
...Manhattan alone, more than 30 new agencies opened last year. Mostly, the newcomers hope to match the success of Wells, Rich, Greene Inc., whose imaginative ads (Braniff, Benson & Hedges) have won it billings worth $80 million in just 22 months. Ranging from agencies like Chicago's Altman, Bratrude & Soforth (which stands for the rest of the firm, currently one account man and one secretary) to "think tanks" like Manhattan's Will Graham Co., which peddles ideas to bigger firms, the new shops are short on staff but long on creative charisma...