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...that all sorts of improbable things began to happen to them. A U.S. destroyer boiled up alongside the steamship and took them off. A Navy plane flew them from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbor. On arrival they were hustled away to a hospital and supplied with steaks, ice cream, vitamin pills and new uniforms. Doctors tapped and jabbed them; intelligence officers quizzed them about the world revolution...
...Vitamin Pills. Hoyt scrapped the Post's old sloppy makeup, insisted on sharper leads and shorter stories, used the space saved on more news and ads. He doubled the editorial staff, assigned reporters to an empire beat 1,000 miles wide and 1,500 miles long. He gave the Post an editorial page, took editorializing out of the news columns, and broadened the paper's intensely regional outlook...
Although the Post is delivered by bicycle, burro and plane daily in every one of the 13 states in the Rocky Mountain Empire, energetic Ep Hoyt is not relaxing. He munches candy bars, swallows vitamin pills, and takes catnaps to keep going 18 hours a day. He traveled 45,000 miles last year, selling the Post to the empire. The hustle & bustle pays off. Last year's gross: $12,000,000 (net: more than $1,000,000). To Ep Hoyt and the Post that is not good enough. They share the old Bonfils motto, still published daily: "There...
Nothing but Hope. The doctors are still deep in argument over possible substitutes for the wonder hormones ACTH and cortisone. A few Swedish, British and U.S. investigators claim wondrous results with desoxycorticosterone acetate ("DOCA," an adrenal hormone) and vitamin C injections given within a few minutes of each other. Others in the U.S. sing the praises of such hormones as 21-acetoxy-pregnenolone. None of these, said Drs. Hench and Kendall, have stood up under proper testing...
...Stokstad and Jukes do not know why the antibiotic is also a growth stimulant. They do not think it functions as a vitamin. More likely, they suspect, it inhibits intestinal bacteria that consume vitamins or have other harmful effects on the animal's nutrition. They hope that it may prove valuable in treating some types of human malnutrition...