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Instead of the 5.6? a quart which he now gets for fluid milk from big milk distributors like Sheffield Farms and Borden's, the farmer would get over 10?. Much of this rise would be passed on to the public, even if the distributors absorbed part of it. The price the housewife pays for milk (delivered) might jump from 15½? a quart...
...microscope, and must be cultured on a special nitrogen compound called asparagine. For every patient, said Dr. MacNeal, he must send a sample of blood or pus containing the bacteria to special laboratories, have the bacteriophage made to order. It is injected into the veins, as much as a quart in eight hours. Since it is difficult to culture, doctors seldom think of using it until the "extreme stage" of illness. According to Dr. MacNeal, bacteriophage first weakens bacteria with special enzymes, then most probably joins forces with the white blood cells which eat the invaders...
...Harvard students threw themselves off the Weeks Bridge over the Charles River. Well, no, they didn't exactly THROW themselves over--if we know those Harvard kids, they dived and had a couple of friends close at hand (just in case) with a rowboat and a quart of Scotch. They think ahead, those Harvard lads. --From the Sunday Advertiser...
...into that pit, McArthur had come a long way. As a piano prodigy in Denver, he made money for music lessons by selling magazines on street corners, picking berries at 2? a quart. In high school, young McArthur played the typewriter; his virtuoso prestissimo won him the Colorado championship. Then he turned accompanist and vocal coach, for Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman as well as for concert artists like John Charles Thomas, Gladys Swarthout and, finally, Soprano Flagstad...
...these two are accompanied by all the dancing anyone could want and at least three more great Richard Rodgers tunes: I Could Write a Book (sweet), Love Is My Friend (torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister...