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...common drink and an uncommon nut are both causes of severe skin inflammation, says the A.M.A. Journal. An Oakland (Calif.) man, 36, went to a party where the only drink served was gin and tonic, had five or six of them. Within two days his entire body was covered with a red or purplish rash, his face was unrecognizable, and his palms and soles were a mass of blisters. It took six days of treatment with cortisone, wet dressings and lotions before he could leave the hospital. Cause of his trouble: a rare, severe sensitivity to quinine. A Philadelphia woman...
...painting of methylcholanthrene outside the mouth, but they resist repeated paintings inside. However, if their saliva glands are removed and the mouth becomes ulcerated, they become susceptible to cancer. These results are consistent with observed cases of human mouth cancer. Such cases are rare among both smokers and betel-nut chewers with good teeth. But they are relatively common in individuals with jagged teeth or ill-fitting dentures that may have worn through the "physiological barrier...
...first crack at TV directing. He was surprised at the prissiness of TV censors: four of the several references to Billie as a "broad" had to go. Anything that might be construed as a reference to mental illness was also cut: "crazy broad" became "dizzy broad." "Off her nut" became "blow her stack." Suggestions of physical impairment were primly deleted, viz., Billie, trying on her glasses, to Harry: "What's so funny? That I'm blind practically?" Network censors thought the most offensive line was Billie's explanation of Harry's objection to her work...
...Woman's Place. In Houston, after ordering coffee from his waitress wife at the Do-Nut Hole drive-in, Paul Anderson threw it at her, smashed his truck against the building, broke all the restaurant's windows and much of its equipment with an iron pipe, told police that he didn't want his wife working there...
...John) Stafford Ellithorp Jr., 61, former president of Beech-Nut Packing Co., was elected to the same post in the recently consolidated Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. (TIME, June 18). Ellithorp broke in as a chemist with the company 39 years ago, shortly after taking his B.S. at Syracuse University ('16). Still very much the chief executive of the combined companies: Life Saver Pioneer Edward John Noble, 74, board chairman...