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...plasma intravenously. Since plasma is often not available and since it often contains hepatitis virus, doctors have been looking for a simpler remedy. Last week a team of U.S. Public Health Service scientists announced that they had found it. Their remedy: a solution of simple table salt and baking soda, taken orally...
Bilious blue bloods and asthmatic aristocrats have sipped the strong waters of La Bourboule for centuries. The heady brew burbling up from radioactive springs around the French spa is spiced with arsenic and bicarbonate of soda and, so the Bourbouliens say, is good for anemia, rheumatism, diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent fevers and a host of other ailments. Sooner or later, shrewd Gallic hôteliers were sure to figure that what is good for man is also good for beasts. One fellow with the soul of a pressagent finally hit on the thought that a swig or two from...
...limbering up my magnificent legs. We're sure to win this year, even though competition is stiff. Our tandem is equipped with rags, flags, oil water, soda, and scotch. And pills. We're both wearing white Bermuda shorts and pale blue sweaters. Our socks are crimson...
...truly earned on the field of battle. All took it for granted that his relatively humble job as managing director of a small London hotel was in reality a cover-up for the vital and undercover Secret Service work at which he often hinted over a confidential whisky and soda at the Ritz bar or the Dorchester...
...neither drank nor smoked nor went out on the town nights; he read almost nothing but magazines and the newspapers (at bedtime, as sedatives) ; he owned a Cadillac he did not like to drive. His great pleasure, it seemed, was to stop strangers in the streets, in buses, in soda fountains, where he would talk understandingly about their problems without letting on that he was a Congressman. He took no vacations outside of a weekend or two in Montreal, where he liked to walk around the older parts of town chatting with janitors. Congressman Lane liked everybody-although...