Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harrison and your readers should be told that there are very few men dying of coronary attacks below the age of 60 who are not tobacco smokers; that all men below 41 (on whom information could be obtained) dying from this cause during 1946 and 1947 in Cincinnati were cigarette smokers; that abnormal addiction to tobacco smoking is present to a highly significant degree in male coronary victims of all ages; that these facts and similar ones for peptic ulcer are most likely based on the well-known toxicity of nicotine for nerve cells of the automatic (involuntary) nervous system...
...Porter and I queried people of both sexes and colors, and all ages above 20, in every tract of Columbus, Ohio, and then checked the findings against representative groups in Cincinnati. We are thus not guessing when we say that coronary victims of all ages are abnormally addicted to tobacco smoking...
...Trustee. A second choice but a first-rate man, Gordon Gray is an heir to part of the ripe, golden R. J. Reynolds tobacco (Camels) fortune. His father put young Gordon to work in the leaf houses and at the cigarette machines, but Gordon didn't like the tobacco business. At the University of North Carolina he was No. 1 in his class, and president of Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale he was an editor of the Law Journal. After a few years of practice as a lawyer in New York and Winston-Salem, he headed a group which...
There were such veterans on the list as American Tobacco Co. President Vincent Riggio ($484,202), Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace ($293,279), and William Randolph Hearst ($300,000). But the others were not so familiar. They were: E. H. Little, president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. ($350,000); A. A. Somerville, vice president of Manhattan's R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Inc., which distributes chemicals ($319,398); Seton Porter, president of National Distillers Products Corp. ($310,000); Theodore Seltzer, president of Bengue Inc., which makes Ben-Gay ointment ($295,613); and G. A. Bryant, president of a Cleveland...
...baseball chemistry, the movie's laughs come from the whimsical, confused Milland as he changes professions and from Paul Douglas, who plays Ray's catcher and room mate. Douglas, matching his stage performance in "Born Yesterday" and his other movie appearance in "A Letter to Three Wives," is the tobacco-chewing, hardheaded, soft-hearted, Ring Lardner ball player who wisecracks at the umpire during business hours and spends the rest of the day keeping his irascible pitcher in tow. One of the picture's funniest scenes comes when he uses some of the magic lotion for hair tonic and finds...