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...with the new biological technique: use of mildly radioactive substances as food. These can be traced through the body by detection of the rays which they give off. (In the past, scientists have lost track of food after it left the alimentary canal.) The Harvard biochemists fed radioactive baking soda to rats, found that the carbon dioxide in it was being used in the liver to build carbohydrates...
Good shots: Robert Cummings spiking Coburn's precious Romanee-Conti 1903 (only twelve bottles vintaged, six of them for the King of England) with soda pop to make it potable...
From her position in the wings, Secretary Moir has seen Winnie strut the stage with nothing but a towel about his middle. She has heard him bawl for his mail, his secretary and a scotch & soda all in one breath. She tells of how he took up painting to assuage the bitterness that followed Gallipoli, how in his younger years he had stage-door-johnnied Ethel Barrymore (with little success). But though she is sometimes astute about her idol ("He is 'over-engined' for peace perhaps but perfectly engined, I think, for war"), Winston Churchill remains for Phyllis...
...entirely academic, Quiz the Scientist has included tips from Dr. Kelley for housewives. Not long ago, she told how to clean silverware by using a 10? pie plate made out of tin. By putting the tin plate in a larger aluminum pan and adding warm salt water and soda, the silverware, Dr. Kelley pointed out, can be cleaned of tarnish by placing it in the water so it touches the tin plate. Promptly she was deluged with silver polish samples, which manufacturers begged her to use instead of her 10? pie plate...
...finally sells himself on the cause when confronted by one of the dozens of mushrooming John Doe Clubs. In a small town he hears the local soda jerker (Regis Toomey) tell how Love Thy Neighbor really works. In this scene a number of Hollywood types give Capra-Riskin some of the best character acting on film. Thereafter Doe makes a nationwide tour, falls in love with the girl writer, acquires such a nationwide reputation that his face appears on the cover of TIME...