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Most physicians are convinced that alcoholism is, at bottom, a psychological disorder. Roger John Williams, famed biochemist of the University of Texas, had a different theory. The trouble, he argued might have a physical basis. Now, in Nutrition and Alcoholism (University ol Oklahoma; $2), Williams suggests that vitamins have achieved history's first honest-to-goodness cure in a case of alcoholism, making the patient truly able to take a drink or leave...
...Green Pastures (by Marc Connelly; suggested by Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun; produced by the Wigreen Company in association with Harry Fromkes) still has an appeal after 21 years. Once again a set of Bible stories, as they appear to a Negro preacher conducting a Southern Sunday-school class, is made living and bright on the stage. The Green Pastures has a storybook simplicity, a picture-book vividness. It has the folk imagination's ability to recreate in its own image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with...
Their enemy was Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge, who had inherited "Ol Gene" Talmadge's hatred for "them lying newspapers." For a while, Herman had tried to fight his press critics with scurrilous attacks in his own weekly Statesman ("The People-Editor; "Herman E. Talmadge-Associate Editor"). Then Herman's men introduced three tough press-control bills into the state legislature...
...Prime Minister dressed in cowboy boots, holding a ten-gallon hat and speaking a Fleet Street version of U.S. dialect: "Waal folks, I been away quite a piece, I guess, and it sure is mighty fine to be back here wid youse guys on dis li'l ol' island...
...League team: g, Ben North of Brown; rfb, Alex Athanassiades of Yale; lfb, jackson Hall of Dartmouth; rhb, Art Pappas of Springfield; chb, Paul Deitsche of Yale; lhb, Don Spreen of Springfield; ol, Court Nelson of Trinity; il, Ash Eames of Amherst; Cf, Burnett; ir, Weiss; or, Goldstein...