Word: vitamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original jumping Jack. Backed by bubbly organ music, he gives lectures on the beauties of sweating ("It's Mother Nature's air conditioner"), sings, tells jokes, blows kisses and delivers sermonettes. No one, he says, can hope for a sound body without a heavy dose of "vitamin F-faith, and vitamin...
...TIME! That cues a pitch for LaLanne's elastic exercise rope ($4), one of the 30 health and beauty products that he peddles. As testimony to the benefits of such items as Jack LaLanne's Toasted Soya Snack Crackers and Jack LaLanne's One-Plus-One Vitamin and Mineral Formula, he introduces his wife Elaine. "When I met her," he says, "she was a bean pole living on coffee and cigarettes. I rebuilt her to my own specifications-35-26-35-and man alive, just look...
Died. Harry Steenbock, 81, longtime (1908-56) University of Wisconsin research chemist and pioneer in vitamin D-enriched foods; of a heart attack; in Madison, Wis. In 1924, Steenbock discovered that vitamin D could be "activated" with ultraviolet rays from a quartz-vapor lamp, quickly treated milk and other foods to provide the first new source of the rickets-preventing "sun vitamin" since cod-liver oil. His patents could have made him wealthy, but instead he helped set up a foundation to handle royalties, which netted $10,000,000 for the university before a federal court in 1945 ruled...
...number of national awards for his research into the chemical causes of cancer, and was a member of the U.S. Surgeon General's committee that issued the 1964 report linking cigarette smoke with the disease. Fieser was also a pioneer in developing laboratory production of vitamin K, the body's blood-clotting agent, and antimalarial drugs. Despite these impressive credentials of service to mankind, he has lately received a number of angry letters. Reason: back in 1943, Fieser invented napalm...
With the last $4,300 of his Navy winnings, Kauffman founded his own company, sold vitamin tablets and liver shots from the basement of his home. As sales increased, Kauffman also sold seven friends on investing in his struggling firm; each $1,000 of their original investment today is worth...