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...medical journals, etc., asking for further information about antabus. All have been answered. A second story on Scandinavia's experience with the drug (TIME, Jan. 10) showed that there were dangerous aspects to antabus. A Helsinki housewife had loaded the canapes with it at her husband's stag party, which ended with everybody getting sick and some guests going to the hospital. As usual, TIME'S Medicine editor made no suggestions or recommendations about the use of antabus. He is gratified, nevertheless, at this impressive evidence of the readership his section has-right around the world...
...Helsinki housewife decided that her husband's stag party would be just the place to try out Antabus tablets, which are intended to make alcohol distasteful to alcoholics (TIME, Dec. 6). She put some, in powdered form, in the party's smorgas, popular with Finns as well as Swedes. The results were sensational. Within 10 to 45 minutes, whether they had drunk beer, wine or hard liquor, the guests had splitting headaches and were vomiting. Their blood pressure and pulse rate shot up. It became the worst lost weekend any of them had ever known; twelve landed...
Even conservative, Finnish-born Jules Andre, a top ski clothes designer, was showing a fancy two-piece outfit. The mass manufacturers had also ducked up. Portland, Ore.'s White Stag Manufacturing Co., whose ski clothes had outsold all others for years (last year's gross: some $1,500,000), stepped out with a jazzy checkered suit (price...
Sweet & Young. To her practiced eye, the debutante party is a poor pitch. The boys from Harvard, Yale and Princeton who throng the stag line and trace the source of champagne and Scotch to the pantry with the single-minded cunning of a parched mongoose, are not what she is looking for. Said Joanne: "I don't really like college boys. I know what they are going to say and how they think. They're so silly, and don't know how to drink." Some of the college boys seemed to share her indifference. Said a Yale...
...Young Republican Club has taken over Memorial Hall for five hours of beer-drinking and dancing. The Democratic Club has joined forces with Students for Truman for two stag affairs...