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Both NBC and CBS evening news roundups, for example, are sponsored; but NBC's is unluckier in its sponsor. The Alka-Seltzer commercials not only break the program twice within 15 minutes, they seem to assume that hangovers are general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: News & Newscasts | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...Theatre. Producers Tickey, Hale and Robinson have reached into the pantry of theatrical food and loaded a groaning table with every edible known to the theatroniverous world. Net result: the most appetetive play-going gourmand alive could hardly leave without a satieted groan and a distinct craving for Alka-Seltzer. Reason: the recipe used was an inexcusably hacked script...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/1/1941 | See Source »

...fathers and sons who have both gone through Harvard show that there has been an average gain in height of 3.5 centimeters and in weight of over ten pounds. With respect to the torso much greater gains in length were registered by the abdomen than by the chest, Dr. Seltzer stated. Although greater appreciation of the art of eating might be suspected as an explanation for this phenomenon, Dr. Seltzer was unwilling to hazard an analysis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN BECOME STREAMLINED; GIRL AMAZONS APPEAR AT WELLESLEY | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

...extraordinary fact that stature in various racial stocks, which has remained almost unchanged since post-paleolithic days, has suddenly begun remarkable developments in a number of directions. Dr. Seltzer advanced the theory that the Industrial Revolution, providing speedier transportation facilities, has been in part responsible for intermingling of stocks and a consequent "hybrid vigor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN BECOME STREAMLINED; GIRL AMAZONS APPEAR AT WELLESLEY | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

...Seltzer has found no evidence from the studies made at Harvard that heights are declining, as Dr. Mills who finds warm weather responsible for stature degeneration has held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN BECOME STREAMLINED; GIRL AMAZONS APPEAR AT WELLESLEY | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

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