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Died. Adolf Windaus, 82, Berlin-born chemist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize for converting the substance ergosterol to antirachitic vitamin D, was the first to crystallize a vitamin (D in 1931), contributed valuable research to the use of sex hormones and digitalis; of a heart attack; in Göttingen, Germany...
...neighbor always mixes horse manure with food given his dog. Is this good? A. Horse manure is rich in riboflavin, but it would be better to buy vitamin-B compounds...
...antibiotics industry has also produced spectacular ideas. Only a few years ago, Chas. Pfizer & Co. was dumping the residue of its streptomycin fermentation vats in the Wabash River. Then Pfizer and other antibiotics companies found that the residue contained vitamin B12, a powerful growth stimulant. Once, B-12 was extracted from animal livers for humans and sold for thousands of dollars an ounce. Now Pfizer sells the B-12-rich residue cheaply to feed companies, which put it into animal rations. Merck & Co. and others have synthesized gibberellic acid, which has a powerful growth-stimulating effect on plants. Minute traces...
When Catherine is invited to spend a few weeks with a Spanish family, she sees a chance to repair all kinds of relations. Vitamin-packed but starved for iniquity -as far as Air Force gallants go, the Cain in Spain is mainly on the wane-Catherine sets the Spaniards to smoldering. Before long she is exchanging sweet nadas with the very Iberian who has been spreading all the calumnies-a handsome, aristocratic, intelligent, artistic, musically talented blackguard of a bullfighter. He hates the U.S. because it is burying his country's fine old traditions under a mulch of Coca...
...minor irritation, considering that they will all be around New York for a long time-Great White Father and Daddy, Miyoshi, Pat and all the kids-just a big Oriental family beating their flowery drum. Meanwhile, the girls are getting accustomed to New York. Pat is getting vitamin injections for extra energy, and Miyoshi, in a remarkable East-West synthesis, has taken to champagne. "I can't stop drinking it," she says. "It tastes like sake...