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Last week the doctors reported the results of the two-year test in the Journal of the American Medical Association. There was no real difference between the two groups of children-in height, weight, or hemoglobin and red cell count. General health seemed to favor the margarine boys & girls, but the doctors cautiously credited "other variables." Their conclusion : "Whether the greater part of the fat of the diet is derived from vegetable or animal sources has no effect on growth and health. .. . Margarine is a good source of table fat in growing children...
...gunman, one a thief, one an incorrigible delinquent. All of them had made several escapes from Missouri's ill-famed Training School for Boys at Boonville and been recaptured. But they were not tough enough to take the n agging boredom of the bleak, brick-tiled isolation cell. Irritable and depressed, they yammered at each other...
That was the signal. Twelve convicts, many of them lifers, began the escape that had been plotted for weeks. They slugged four other guards, threw a switch that opened the electrically locked cell doors...
...taken the Buddhist cure for his troubles (i.e., counting beads and keeping the Buddhist Sabbath), paled as he entered the death cell in Insein jail. Outside, in a glare of fireworks, the independence festivities had begun...
...incompetents, produced such a persuasive "Vermeer" that critics acclaimed it as Vermeer's masterpiece. In 1945, charged with collaboration for having sold Hermann Göring a Vermeer, Dutchman Van Meegeren saved his neck by declaring himself a faker, proved it by painting another "Vermeer" in his prison cell...