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Died. Max C. Fleischmann, 74, heir to the Fleischmann yeast and gin companies: by his own hand (he shot himself after learning he was afflicted with an incurable disease); in Carpinteria, Calif. In 1929, he sold the business his father had built in Ohio to the House of Morgan for a reported $20 million worth of shares in Standard Brands. After that, he helped round up lawbreakers in Nevada, where he built a mansion and became an honorary cop, roamed the world in a succession of 22 luxury yachts. In 1941, he infuriated Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones by being...
...find out how rhodopsin works, Biologist Wald extracted a protein called opsin from the eyes of freshly killed animals and mixed it with vitamin A and two enzymes (organic catalysts): alcohol oxidase (from horse livers) and cozymase (from yeast). When this mixture is placed in the dark, the enzymes convert the vitamin A to retinene, a yellow pigment. Then the retinene combines with the opsin to form bright red rhodopsin...
...Rochester, N.Y., federal Food & Drug agents seized 108 quarts of blackstrap molasses along with 25 copies of Gayelord Mauser's popular diet book, Look Younger, Live Longer, in which the fashionable dietician touts his perfect health menus of wheat germ, yogurt, brewer's yeast and blackstrap molasses. The food men, taking a dyspeptic view of the perfect-health approach, charged that Hauser was violating the pure food laws, particularly with his claim that blackstrap would prevent menopausal difficulties, constipation, heart trouble, neuritis, also induce sleep and help grow hair...
...reporter and editor, he borrowed 3,000,000 cruzeiros in 1925 and bought his first newspaper, Rio's O Jornal. Generally regarded as Brazil's top reporter, he competed with his own staffers for scoops. He tangled with almost everybody. "I'm like a loaf of yeast bread," he liked to say. "The more they knead me the higher I rise." He always carried a revolver and sometimes even drew it, though his aim was so bad that in one scrape he fired at an antagonist and shot his chief editorial writer...
...entirely possible that a hormone such as exists in the inset can be found in the human body. Although the silk worm is far less complex than man, its essential biochemical processes are the same. Similar experiments using yeast cells in place of human tissues produced successful results...