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Suggested for adults: 18 ounces (about one loaf) of whole wheat a day, for carbo-lydrates; two-fifths of an ounce of salt, tor maintaining the water balance in body tissues; the same quantity of brewers' yeast, for vitamin B; one-twelfth of an ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Least for Life | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter and White. Motor-makers were Aircooled Motors Corp., Buda, Continental, Cummins, Hercules, and Waukesha. Represented, too, were some 75 body, wheel, accessory and fuel companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Big Stuff | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Some historical plays, to be sure, are made of sterner stuff and use the past for what it can say to the present. In Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Playwright Sherwood beats the drum for liberal democracy; in Knickerbocker Holiday, the author of High Tor gives comfort to high Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Past & Present | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...arises from a misapprehension of the Society's limitations and functions. Since Boston possesses the second most active theatre in America, the Harvard club finds itself unable to compete with commercial productions. It cannot cater successfully to undergraduates since they will invariably prefer the professional to the amateur "High Tor" when in search of an evening's entertainment. Hence, the Dramatic Society is in a totally different position from that of the Princeton Theatre Intime or the Amherst Masquers, the productions of which are highlights of the college social season, and which are consequently closely integrated with college life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACTORS' BRIEF | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Divorced. Oliver Burgess ("Buzz") Meredith. 29, actor (Winterset, High Tor) ; by his second wife, Margaret Perry, 25, actress (Strictly Dishonorable); in Reno, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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