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Diabetics who have been told to cut sugar out of their diet and plumpish U.S. citizens who watch their waistlines have sometimes objected to saccharin; in some mouths, saccharin leaves a bitter aftertaste. Furthermore, it cannot be used in many kinds of cooking because it breaks down under heat. Sucaryl, says Abbott, has the edge over saccharin in both these respects: it does not taste bitter and it can be cooked just like sugar. Canned goods and preserves sweetened with it will be sold through health food stores. Abbott offers one warning: since it is a sodium salt, people with...
Menace to Hoomanity. The shmoo is a small animal which looks like an animated ham. From its round rump a plumpish neck narrows toward a tiny head; from above a sparse mustache, a pair of trusting eyes peer myopically but ingratiatingly at the world. In the words of the greatest living authority on shmoos: "They lays aigs at th' slightest excuse! They also gives milk. And as fo' meat-broiled, they makes th' finest steaks; fried, they come out th' yummiest chicken." The shmoo is so sensitive and so eager to please that when a human...
...Romance of Rosy Ridge (MGM) presents Van Johnson as a plumpish Barefoot Boy who wanders into Missouri's Ozarks and settles down with some folks named MacBean to help with the harvesting. Besides being useful around the house and barnyard, Van is quite a man with the mouth organ, the banjo, his larynx, and the ladies...
Divorced. James Hilton, 46, plumpish, British-born, best-selling novelist (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) turned Hollywood writer; by onetime Actress Galina Kopineck Hilton, 44 (who told the court: ". . . He could argue much better than I could"); after ten years, no children; in Los Angeles...
Married. Maria Elizabeth Sieber, 22, plumpish actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; and William Riva, 27, Manhattan artist; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...