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Encounter's backer, the devotedly anti-Communist Congress for Cultural Freedom (whose purpose is the "defense of intellectual liberties against all encroachments on the creative and critical spirit of man"), gets its money from such angels as Yeast Heir Julius Fleischmann, the Rockefeller Foundation, trade unions and other groups. The Congress, which has given the new magazine's editors a free hand, will distribute Encounter all over the world, hopes to boost its circulation to 25.000. British-born Editor Spender and American-born Kristol think an international magazine will help writing in both countries. Kristol feels that...
...announced the arrival of vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine), a new member of the prolific B family of vitamins, back in 1934. But like anxious parents of a balky child, they scarcely knew what to do with it. They found B-6 in such various substances as rice bran, liver, yeast, egg yolks and cereals. They even learned how to manufacture it themselves. Working with lab animals, they came to suspect that it might be a control factor in such diseases as hardening of the arteries and even cancer. But nobody found much use for it except as an antidote...
...Secretary of Defense, Charles Erwin Wilson is the boss of 3,500,000 uniformed men & women and nearly 1,500,000 civilians. So far, Wilson has been able to bring into the department only eleven men of his own choosing. "An awfully small piece of yeast," as he says, "for such a big lump of dough." The real managers of the Defense Department are a few hundred generals, admirals and civilian bureaucrats...
...catching the swallow.) Bitter almonds had a legendary reputation in the Middle Ages, but Sir Thomas (Religio Medici) Browne, checking up in the 17;th century, sadly reported: "That antidote against ebriety . . . hath commonly failed." Later came raw eels, thoughtfully suffocated in wine. Present-day self-treatments include yeast, yoghurt, lime juice, vitamin B1, cabbage water or diminishing doses of alcohol...
Inflation: "The cause of inflation can, I believe, be made plain. Let's stay in the kitchen a moment. It is as though we were making bread and while we answered the phone a malicious neighbor [i.e., Russia] dumped a whole cup of yeast into the bowl. That's the inflation story. In fact, that is inflation...