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...years and 1,000 experiments, stocky Scotsman George Brownlee, 37, thought he had something. His research team at Wellcome Physiological Laboratory, Beckenham, Kent, had produced a new antibiotic from bacteria (Bacillus aerosporus) found in soil from a market garden. The antibiotic is called aerosporin (pronounced a-ross-poe-rin). The researchers' tests and findings were reported with cautious excitement in Lancet...
...whose golf had been suffering, got a checkup at a hospital, was treated for a stiff elbow. Actor George Sanders took fresh note of the way celebrities got mauled and announced that he would never again give his autograph in public. And PRC Pictures announced that it was bringing Rin Tin Tin back in Vita-color...
...Train Robbery. Then they acquired a nickelodeon in New Castle, Pa. By 1917 they had their own distributing company. By the mid-'20s they were making $1,000,000 a year on their own pictures, and they controlled two popular stars-John Barrymore and a talented dog named Rin...
...Jack views the future with equanimity. Last week he reared back in his plush, green leather upholstered office and mused: "I like Westerns best. . . . You know what a Western is, don't you? It's Rin-Tin-Tin climbing through the transom to rescue some beautiful broad. Only instead of Rin-Tin-Tin now, we've got Errol Flynn...
...humanity. . . ." His discovery: "just about the best restaurant in a muddled world." He excitedly reported "a foie gras such as I have not tasted since Hitler attacked Poland, an omelette Perigoitrdine not to be found anywhere else in Europe, a brochette de rognons that would knock Monsieur Brillat-Sava-rin's eye out. . . ." He kept the location secret, said he, because "officially speaking, it is not correct to eat well today in this country. . . ." His happy conclusion: "Whatever has happened to France . . . she has not lost the art of cooking...