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...shrill combativeness often brought him perilously close to breaking the routine. "Do you," asked Chairman McClellan at one point, "regard your privileges under the Fifth Amendment as transcending your duty and obligations to the laboring men of this country who belong to your union?" Beck's rare-roast-beef face turned an even deeper shade, his head shot forward, his lips moved as he shaped an outraged reply. Just in time, his sad-faced lawyer, Arthur Condon, drove a swift knuckle into the small of Beck's back. Three times Beck started to answer; three times Condon...
Ears, Eyebrows. Much plastic surgery involves correcting abnormalities about the face. A child may be born with a malformed ear, or no ear. Surgeon Gillies sometimes uses beef cartilage as the base for sculpturing a new ear with flaps of the child's skin, but he prefers to get cartilage from the mother's ear. This can be done without disfiguring her, and as Gillies notes tartly, she can wear her hair low to cover the scar-which her son cannot. Such grafts have lasted 15 years. In one remarkable case, Gillies used part of a woman...
From Patting Dogs. When humans eat infected meat that is not thoroughly cooked, the cysts are digested, releasing a tapeworm head that attaches itself to the wall of the intestine. The "beef tapeworm of man" (Taenia saginata) may grow to be 40 ft. long and half an inch wide. This is the species whose heads are occasionally sold as active ingredients of "reducing pills." They may be slightly effective by causing general debility (it is not true that tapeworms increase appetite), but a society of tapeworms coiled in the abdomen cannot improve the figure...
...Land (Jaguar; Warner). "Thuh East needs beef!" That's what the man says, but regrettably, in this as in most of his independent productions. Actor Alan Ladd is able to deliver almost nothing but corn. For a moment now and then the wide screen opens on the blond infinities of Kansas grassland, but then it quickly narrows focus to the usual picayune plot: hero in trouble, villain (Anthony Caruso) in black, redhead (Virginia Mayo) in stays, weakling (Edmond O'Brien) in his cups. Then come the cattle drive, the big stampede, the solemn walk through the swinging doors...
...Eaters" Competition is being held, one contestant attracted heavy betting by putting away a trial meal of 20 artichokes, 200 pickles, 15 mushrooms, 20 slices of smoked tongue, four portions of meat-filled dumplings, two bowls of rice, two helpings of hog's pudding, three helpings of boiled beef and chili, one chicken, three helpings of veal with salad, 1 Ib. of cheese, half a pie, a bowl of fruit, a gallon of wine, three glasses of cognac, four cups of coffee...