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...prescription to ward off death from coronary thrombosis (a blood clot in one of the arteries that supply the heart muscles) was offered last week by Dr. Donald D. Reid of London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: "Don't be unduly upset by the risk of coronary disease; take the elementary precaution of being born a woman; don't become a doctor [because their coronary] death rate is 20% above the rest; live in the quiet of the country; avoid anxiety and overeating. In other words, laugh but don't grow...
...Ogden Reid, president of the New York Herald Tribune Litt.D...
What remains is the Technicolored rags-to-riches story of a great opera star who, after his triumphs all over Europe, supposedly had to put up with a cool reception at the Met and the social snobbishness of the man (Carl Benton Reid) who was both its chief patron and the father of the girl (Ann Blyth) he loved. It is a story full of the kind of quaint dialect which, designed to sound like a literal English translation of Italian, sounds only like pure Ruritanian...
Simply by wearing a cap in his pictures, the silent screen's Wallace Reid started men rushing to buy caps of their own. Clark Gable almost wrecked the sale of men's undershirts by appearing without one in 1934's It Happened One Night. Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne toasted each other with pink champagne in 1939's Love Affair, and the day after the Manhattan opening, romantic moviegoers snapped up Macy's whole stock of the stuff...
degrees in chemical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh while working at Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute. At the institute, Reid did research for Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., after nine years' work on esters succeeded in producing Vinylite, the plastic now used for shower curtains, combs, etc. In 1943, Reid, a Kansan, joined Cora Products (maker of Karo syrup, Mazola oil, etc.) as a vice president, during the war served as chemicals boss...