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Total starvation is too dangerous to be lightly undertaken on a do-it-yourself basis, the A.M.A. Journal warns. It should never be tried, even under a doctor's care, by patients with liver disease, gout or heart-artery disease...
...Harvard University Press sends a letter to all retail book stores authorizing a reduction in price to thirty-nine cents for President Pusey's Age of the Scholar "as a means of increasing sales of this timely book." Discovery of the inscription "Guaranteed Puncture-Proof" on a piece of liver served in the Lowell House Dining Hall sparks a University investigation of Central Kitchens practices...
Died. Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 66, only son of the founder of Dodge Motor Co.; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Detroit. A career sportsman, Dodge dispensed large chunks of the family fortune for souped-up speedboats and five wives (five children) who consumed more than $2 million in alimony and settlements. Sure to come: a battle royal over Dodge's will, which declares itself "null and void" if he is survived by his mother, now 93. Stakes: $2,000,000 in Dodge's personal funds, and eventually $65 million now in Mamma's name...
...with timely tips for the battle-scarred. In addition to stringent post-holiday dieting-for serious crises de foie, doctors recommend total abstinence from meat, eggs, fish, butter, wine, tobacco and coffee-Dr. André Soubiran, writing in the woman's magazine Jours de France, warned readers "your liver needs fresh air," and will invariably be "put in a better humor" if it is taken for a brisk walk, "preferably in a forest...
Some cures, such as gulping vile-tasting mineral water at a spa, seem worse than the disease. On the other hand, as Soubiran rhapsodized, the liver after all is a "gland more precious than others, which regenerates the blood, stores vitamins, eliminates toxic and waste materials, manufactures reserve sugars, distributes alimentary fats, manufactures iron, assures normal blood coagulation, and controls the functioning of the sexual glands." The liver, he concluded, "is a friend which one must know how to care for. Is it not the liver which controls your sentimental life and your figure...