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...suppose I sold more milk than anybody who ever lived." No, that's not Elsie the Borden cow speaking but Elmer Verner McCollum, who in 1918, as a University of Wisconsin researcher, first identified vitamin A in butterfat. He followed this in 1922 with the discovery (in cod-liver oil) of vitamin D, now irradiated in a goodly portion of the nation's milk. Though retired from his last post, as professor of biochemistry at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, he writes and conducts experiments there, at 85 a lively testimonial to the balanced diet...
Perilous Aphrodisiac. The peril and excitement come from other fugu dishes. Most risky is a milky-white preparation of fugu testes that is mixed with hot sake and drunk by eager virility seekers. The testes are nontoxic, but the ovaries and liver are so deadly that small bits of them can kill a man, and it takes an experienced chef to distinguish a deadly liver from an aphrodisiac testis...
...campaign manager in the upset election of Governor Philip Hoff (Vermont's first Democrat in 107 years), last year suddenly resigned as Hoff's chief aide and state party chairman with a public announcement that he was an incurable alcoholic; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Gardner, Mass...
Last week, with Chiang Ching-kuo firmly installed in a top Cabinet post, and with 67-year-old Chen Cheng almost constantly abed with a liver ailment, the issue seemed less in doubt. Chiang was made Minister of National Defense, a post for which he has long been preparing as Deputy Minister. In other shifts, the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Education were handed to two of his firmest allies, Cambridge-educated scientist-economist Li Kuo-ting and Yen Chen-hsing, a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. The older men they replaced were known to have leaned more toward Chen...
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree In the cool of the day, having fed to satiety On my legs my heart my liver and that which had been contained In the hollow round of my skull...