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...lactic acid which ordinarily changes into carbon dioxide and is exhaled. During intense effort too much lactic acid is produced in a short time to be eliminated (as oxidized gas) through the lungs. This causes trouble unless the blood contains enough alkaline substances to neutralize the acid. Oranges, grapefruit and lemons alkalinize the blood in a natural way. So do certain mineral waters. But none, according to Berlin's Professor Dennig, can compare with baking soda in simplicity of dosage or directness of effect. The dose he gives was not stated in last week's dispatches...
...Honorary editor of the Journal is famed onetime (1921-28) World Court Justice John Bassett Moore. Active editorial direction is in the hands of the A. A. A.'s perennial president, Lucius Root Eastman, 62, president of The Hills Brothers Co., big Manhattan importers and manufacturers (Dromedary Dates, grapefruit juice, pimentos), and a board including Educator Isaiah Bowman and President Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines Corp...
...uneven course of their romance does net require Miss Clarke to function as target for Cagney's grapefruit throwing, as she did in Public Enemy, but the affair is at least brightly controversial. When Johnny catches the ward leader and his fiancee's boss trying to destroy evidence he has collected to show that both of them are grafters, the result is the most satisfying foot-&-fist work shown...
...League of Nations bar in Geneva, inventive Proprietor Carlo Beltramo, an Italian, celebrated the Roosevelt election by inventing the Forty-Eight States Roosevelt Cocktail. Ingredients: 10 "states" of white Dutch curaçao; 10 "states" of English gin; 8 of grapefruit juice; 18 of French vermouth; one of angostura bitters, representing Maine; and a final "state" of absinthe, green as the forests of Vermont, dripped in on top of the finished cocktail. Urged Barman Beltramo, "Drink one and see the landslide...
...Senators instead of two. One is their enormous pride in Texas' bigness-the superlatives they can use in describing its vast distances, the size of its ranches, the statistics of its cotton, oil and cattle production, even the dimensions of its world's record grapefruit (26-in. circumference) and world's record watermelon (183 lb.). Another reason is Texans' fierce pride in their past, in the heritage of Austin, Travis, Houston and other heroes who tore away from Mexico, a century ago this year, the land which was to become more than one-twelfth...