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...going ten years ago when a San Francisco bachelor died of botulism after gourmandizing on a jar of cheese spread. The National Cheese Institute wanted to learn how to prevent such deaths, which are caused by microbes that sometimes get into spreads and make botulin, the deadliest natural poison known. The University of Chicago's Food Research Institute took on the job, assigned Polish-born Microbiologist Nicholas Grecz to work on it. Grecz was led to Limburger because, as early as the 1880s, Limburger-type cheeses had been observed never to cause food poisoning. Nobody knew...
While McCall's and the Ladies' Home Journal, the amazons of the women's-magazine field, traded perfumed poison-pen letters last week over rival circulation claims (TIME, July 28), third-running Good Housekeeping poked fun at both. The Hearst monthly, with a 5,074,816 circulation (v. 6,857,677 for McCall's, 6,838,282 for the Journal), took space in two major newspapers to print a whimsical, seven-column "fable" with a pointed moral...
...history tells of no other queen more gracious and pious than Theodolinda. She was the daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, and toward the end of the 6th century she married the powerful Authari, King of the warlike Lombards. Shortly thereafter, in 591, Authari died suddenly, some said by poison. Normally the death of a King would have precipitated a bloody scramble for the throne among local chiefs, with Theodolinda as a sort of door prize. But in the few years she had been Queen, Theodolinda had become so beloved among the Lombards that they insisted that she alone choose...
...system contains 80 gal lons, weighing more than 600 Ibs. Pilgrim is sure that this prohibitive weight can be reduced drastically, but he has other problems besides. Algae are delicate; they sometimes sicken, turn yellow, and die. They may fall prey to bacteria and other microscopic enemies. They may poison themselves with their own wastes...
...Fluoride is a poison," said Rosenberger in speeches. Bunker noted darkly that the Daily Worker had supported fluoridation, and insisted: "This is not a question on which any group has a right to vote. No group has a right to force taxpayers to take medicine not recommended by their own doctor." Anti-fluoridation groups in other states helpfully flooded Massachusetts with leaflets implying that fluoridation causes cancer and brittle bones and hinting that its proponents are acting on orders from Moscow to soften American brains. Throughout the campaign Rosenberger kept in close telephone contact with Seattle Radiologist Frederick...