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...plugged the wound, he could eat. The failure of Dr. Beaumont to heal that wound made him one of the great figures in medical history. For, by putting a tube in the wound, he observed the movements of St. Martin's gut, discovered the digestive juices and hydrochloric acid...
Crystalline thiamin, which is vitamin BI, together with iron and nicotinic acid, will be generally restored to white flour by millers this month. Cost: two-tenths of a cent per pound loaf. The British Government ordered thiamin into bakers' recipes in July 1940. But Britons eat much more bread than Americans, get a more useful dose of B1 to buck up their war-strained health...
...Justice McReynolds' resignation was to take effect Feb. 1. Last week the dour, acid old man could still be seen stumping daily out of his apartment house, drawing on huge old leather gauntlets, like those of a 1905 race driver, and driving his car off in jerky bounces, with a grinding clash of gears...
...Gertrude Lawrence, known to her intimates as "Gertie" or "G," has long had this sort of effect on the most bilious critics. After her Broadway debut in 1924, one of the most acid reviewers, the late Percy Hammond, said that "Every man in town is, or will be, in love with her." Struggling to describe her power over them, otherwise manly reviewers have often found themselves dithering about her large wistful eyes, her tiptilted, crinkling nose, her mischievous smile; or else about the huskiness of her voice, her exquisite back, or the grace of her slim, long-legged, clotheshorse figure...
Bursting at a time when class distinction is carefully soft-pedaled and most old school ties are in mothballs, Bingham's bomb raised hob. "Since when," asked the Mirror's acid columnist Cassandra, "has Democracy, fighting for its life, been a spittoon for an elderly brass hat?" "If," suggested the Herald, "only the youths from public schools prove to be efficient officers, it would be well if the public schools, which were founded for the poor . . . should be given back to the classes for whom they were intended." "The views expressed . . . do not reflect those...