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...Tavern. The program contains some of radio's oddest characters. Duffy, proprietor of a Third Avenue saloon where "the elite meet to eat," never shows up, is merely a stubborn Irish character on the telephone. Another off-stage character is a man with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book entitled My Son, My Son. Man-crazy Miss Duffy, the boss's daughter and pure Tenth Avenue, is Gardner's pretty, redheaded exwife, Actress Shirley Booth (My Sister Eileen, Tomorrow the World...
Green and red are the colors of life: green for the chlorophyll in plants, red for the hemoglobin in blood cells of man and animal. That red-blooded human beings must eat green leaves, every housewife knows. Several years ago, Professor Benjamin Gruskin of Philadelphia's Temple University followed up this housewifely line. He wanted to see if chlorophyll could fortify body cells which had been invaded by bacteria. He persuaded 18 of his colleagues to use a chlorophyll preparation (usually made from nettles) in their daily practice, and note what happened...
Last week, in the American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Gruskin announced some notable results. Chlorophyll treatment had been used in 1,200 cases of infection, ranging from peritonitis to pyorrhea and the common cold. For lung and brain abscesses, abdominal infections like peritonitis, a solution of chlorophyll in salt water was applied directly to the infected surfaces, either in wet dressings or through soft rubber tubes. "Indolent" ulcers and "weeping" skin diseases were treated with a paste of chlorophyll and lanolin. Since chlorophyll is bland and soothing, said Dr. Gruskin, it has a great advantage over many standard antiseptics, which...
...Gruskin is not sure how chlorophyll works. He thinks that: 1) "in some physicochemical manner" it increases the resistance of cells to bacteria; 2) it releases oxygen, prevents bacteria from forming poisons...
...Navy," wrote Artist Paul Cadmus to the director of Manhattan's Midtown Galleries several weeks ago, "I have not previously found it necessary to have a one-man show. But now . should like to see, a group of my paintings shown in your galleries." Director Alan D. Gruskin went to work, and last week opened the first one-man show of 32-year-old Artist Cadmus. Around the walls sailors tousled their trollops, perverts beckoned from a cafeteria washroom, sagbellied Babbitts diddled in Y.M.C.A. locker rooms, slatterns rioted on public beaches, for these are the principal aspects...