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Professor Hooton, author of "Men, Apes, and Morons" and "Why Men Be have Like Apes and Vice Versa," proposes that the government create a Department of Population, to contain bureaus of Adult Rehabilitation, Marriage and Genetics, Growth and Nutrition, and Education and Vocational Guidance...
...eleven months The Reader's Digest held its peace while the makers of Old Gold cigarets jammed the air with commercials ballyhooing how "impartial scientific tests conducted by The Reader's Digest showed Old Golds contain less nicotine than any other well-known brand." People who remembered how microscopically small was the puff given Old Golds by the Digest and knew how strongly Editor DeWitt Wallace feels about exaggerated ads (his magazine accepts no ads at all) wondered how long it would be before he cracked back...
...Lorillard Co. (Old Golds) has trip-hammered the claim that its cigarets contain less nicotine than others, ever since the Digest's tests a year ago showed this to be technically true. But the Digest now reports the FTC complaint that Old Gold's ballyhoo "carefully omits" mention of the fact that "the actual difference between the average amount of nicotine in an Old Gold and in two other brands was one-177,000th of an ounce. By switching to Old Golds, the addict who smokes 20 cigarets a day will subject his system to only one-24th...
...avoid any repetition, future batches will contain the usual amount of sugar, war or no war. A few spoonfuls of each batch will be tried on animals. To make sure that no customer gets any of the old, bad batches, the new Castoria package will be distinguished by a green band...
Items in the new set-up that still have us going--our overseas hats for wear to classes, marching in squads of three, the alcoves that contain all facilities--iron and laundry, to telephone, and the huge bags containing BuSandA Manual and Menia (at this point we have decided there is no easy or best way of carrying them...