Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Brazil's crop will be short because of damage. Many retailers had taken advantage of the scare to mark up their stocks on hand as much as 50%. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture tried to calm things down a bit. There was enough coffee around, said the department, to prevent an acute'shortage. The National Coffee Association agreed. Snapped an N.C.A. official: "There's no question but that present excessive demand is entirely artificial and unhealthy...
...Said Dr. Andrewes: "We strongly suspect that catching a cold in real life depends on receiving quite a small dose of virus at a time when one's defenses are momentarily off their guard-looking the other way." What the defenses are, exactly, Dr. Andrewes has no idea...
...soak themselves in hot baths, then stand around in a drafty passage for half an hour undried, wearing bathing suits. Then they put on wet socks. In the first test, the chilled volunteers caught the cold virus more readily than those who were kept snug and warm. But, said Dr. Andrewes, "we were foolish enough to repeat this experiment-with a contrary result." The only positive finding: chilling alone produces no colds...
...wide-eyed fans. Cowboy Star Gene Autry spends almost six months a year on money-making one-night stands and rodeo appearances. Recently Jane Russell proved in a 30,000-mile trip that Britain and the Continent will also pay well for a close look at the real thing. (Said the London Times: "She is not shy . . . about her publicity's remarkable claims, knowing full well that none of them is false...
...sure nobody else can know," says Eleanor Roosevelt in casual explanation of why she wrote the second volume of her autobiography. For more than four years, while Franklin Roosevelt's housekeepers and bodyguards, speechwriters and Cabinet members have been carrying their manuscripts to the publishers, his widow has said little about him beyond some references in her syndicated newspaper column. In This-I Remember, she tells her story of the Roosevelts' private life in the White House...