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...because he gave his Negro co-comedian "Rochester" roles not humiliating to the Negro race.) Self-made, sloganeering Henry T. Ewald, president of Detroit's great Campbell-Ewald agency, got 1940"s gold medal for a distinguished career in advertising. For his work with sex hormones and vitamin K (which clots blood, stops hemorrhages), Biochemist Edward A. Doisy of St. Louis University's Medical School won the Willard Gibbs Medal for 1941. The Chicago Symphony Orchestral Association gave $500 to Carl Eppert, winner of its contest for U. S. composers, whose Two Symphonic Impressions set out to illustrate...
Last week it looked as though the problem of sulfa poisoning was solved. Dr. Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins reported a new, innocuous relative of sulfanilamide: sulfadiazine. A compound of sulfanilamide and part of vitamin B, the new drug, which is swallowed with water or injected, turns the same trick sulfanilamide does, plays no tricks on the patient...
...diseases are widespread. "The lack of protein," says Dr. Lim, "is particularly important. . . . Healing of wounds is slow and infections of all kinds are frequent in the undernourished soldier. The lack of fat ... is responsible for the frequency of hemeralopia [blindness under bright lights]." Beriberi, a disease caused by vitamin B deficiency, is common in Southern China, where the main food is polished rice...
...Pneumonia and tuberculosis can be overcome, says Dr. Lim, only if troops are provided with adequate clothing and food. "One of the most serious of venereal diseases is gonorrheal ophthalmia [inflammation of the eyes]" due to lack of water, neglect of elementary personal hygiene (and vitamin A deficiency...
Crystalline thiamin, which is vitamin BI, together with iron and nicotinic acid, will be generally restored to white flour by millers this month. Cost: two-tenths of a cent per pound loaf. The British Government ordered thiamin into bakers' recipes in July 1940. But Britons eat much more bread than Americans, get a more useful dose of B1 to buck up their war-strained health...