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...Useful Yolk. Wyeth's sister Henriette (herself a portraitist) had married Painter Peter Hurd-a fast friend of Andy's. Together Peter and Andy explored the meticulous egg-tempera technique, painting with small brushes on panels, which suits them both perfectly. The technique was standard during the Renaissance, and Wyeth says that "so much hokum has been written about it you feel you have to be a chemist to start on a picture." Wyeth's method is simple: for each day's work he mixes the yolk of one egg with a little distilled water, makes...
Most cytologists (cell scientists) had believed that the virus multiplies in the protoplasm which surrounds the nerve cell's nucleus, much as the white of an egg enfolds the yolk. Not so, the Yale researchers found: the virus invades the nucleus itself as well as the cytoplasm. Apparently it multiplies within the nucleus and, while there, competes with the host cell for the nourishing nucleoproteins which are manufactured in the nucleus...
...atherosclerosis, the inner walls of the arteries become clogged with fatty material. Part of this is cholesterol, a white, soapy-feeling substance (actually an alcohol) found in all animal fats, nerve tissues and egg yolk. Some doctors insisted that the cholesterol was the villain: there must be too much of it in the patient's blood. If it were cut out of the diet, the hardening of the arteries would at least be arrested...
...Including lean meat, but excluding: meat fat animal lard, butter or whole milk; fatty fish such as salmon; egg yolk...
...Centro Adhemar de Barros, a free clinic which he supports; lunched with 200 taxi drivers, dined with Benedito Valladares, chief of President Dutra's copa e cozinha (pantry and kitchen) cabinet. At a churrasco (gaucho barbecue) in the working-class district of Penha, someone threw an egg, spattering yolk over Adhemar's shirt. Snorted Adhemar: "A Communist." He called twice on Dutra, attended Mass, visited headquarters of his Partido Social Progressista, ate another churrasco in another workers' bairro...