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Raucous, sentimental, funny and bawdy, 49-year-old Tessie O'Shea is-as an admirer has described her in a dressing-room telegram-"a divine whiff of the Palladium." As the Sophie Tucker of British vaudeville, she is as familiar as a pint of mild in every corner of the United Kingdom, but she has never before appeared in the U.S. Her family was part of the Irish wave that settled in Cardiff and built its docks, but by the time she was born her father had solidly established himself in the newspaper-distribution business. She was "a little...
...sports-car buffs with pinched pockets and Mittyesque visions of checkered flags, Volkswagen racing is serious business. Grand Prix cars are strictly for pros, Ferraris are for millionaires, and Corvettes are for finance companies. The Formula Junior was supposed to be every man's racer-a pint-sized Grand Prix car that offered most of the thrills for a fraction of the cost. But prices quickly shot up to $7,000 or more...
...volunteers takes three synthetic meals a day. Since the men are not very active (though they can play pingpong and exercise in the gym), 2,400 calories are enough for a lightweight, while a 200-pounder may get 3,700. Each meal makes up a little more than a pint of syrupy liquid. It has to be cold, because some of the vitamins are destroyed by heat...
Spin the Platelets. Progress along these lines has already been made in supplying platelets-the tiny elements in the blood which enable it to clot-from healthy donors to leukemia patients threatened with uncontrollable hemorrhage. A healthy donor gives two pints of blood at a sitting, instead of the usual single pint. But while he is still on the table, high-speed centrifuges separate the platelets. Most of the rest of the blood (red cells, white cells and plasma) is returned to his veins at once. He can continue such donations twice a week for months on end. Al ready...
...State put on an FBI agent who said he had taken a statement from Ware on July 6, 1961, while Ware was still in the hospital. In this statement Ware had sworn that he had drunk six cans of beer and had had a few swallows from a pint bottle of whiskey. This, taken in conjunction with a statement made a bare two hours after Ware had been admitted to the hospital on the 5th to an investigator from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation saying he had had only three cans of beer was intended to weaken Ware's credibility...