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...hung tough. Same as they did when told by another company there would be no band pictures, "because we don't want black radio to see they're white, and we don't want white radio to see they're black." Don says Geffen told the band to whiten up and lighten up "not because they were a racist record company. They were only reflecting a basic reality of the music business." But then, deflecting such realities, changing the perspectives and finding a soulful congeniality is the method behind the band's mad music...
...Congress gave the FDA a mandate to pass on both the safety and effectiveness of all new drugs before licensing them. Druggists' shelves then were crammed with almost 3,000 previously approved preparations. Some were gimmicky solutions supposed to sweeten the breath or whiten teeth, but others contained valuable medications. Some were made by obscure little companies, but many were produced by distinguished firms...
...good U.S. earth is yielding up the first fruits of 1942. Soon summer, moving north, will whiten the grain fields to the harvest-the biggest in U.S. history and the most needed. But to many farmers last week things did not look good...
...following officers were elected: Lawrence Forrest Ebb '39, president; Phil Caldwell Neal '40, vice-president; Paul Whiten Cherington '40, vice-president; Malcolm Richard Wilkey '40, treasurer...
Pronouncing them male, Sir Bernard scraped the legs, analyzed the scrapings. "Peroxide," he observed. "Evidently used to whiten the flesh." Traces were also found of a depilatory. But it was the bones of the toes and insteps which interested Sherlock Spilsbury most. "Toe bones abnormally cramped." he said. "Insteps abnormally arched, as if deformed from wearing women's high-heeled shoes. Um, most curious...