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...Dear Boy." Maxwell knew nothing whatever about the basking shark. He fired more than 300 light machine-gun bullets into its hide-without apparent effect. Intrigued by such a doughty creature, Maxwell began to bone up on it. He found that though the basking shark's liver is known to contain hundreds of pounds of valuable oil, no one had much else to say about the great fish. Here, in short, was a veteran's dream, "an unexplored field, an amazing blank upon the . . . map of the world's natural history...
Christmas Hymn. The white paper reminded Baxter of a rather old story-an offer once made by Beecham's liver pills to provide a church with hymn books in return for a bit of concealed advertising. One Christmas, said Baxter, the congregation found itself singing...
Most patients had a mild reaction, such as a slight fever, and then felt better. But one got an inflammation of the liver, and Dr. Lincoln decided that germs of what he calls Strain Alpha must somehow have been transmuted into Strain Beta, with its own phage. With two phages at hand, Dr. Lincoln went on to treat grippe and liver inflammation. Soon he spread out to treat laryngitis, tonsillitis, abscessed teeth, neuralgia, cataract and glaucoma. By 1948 he was treating cancer and tuberculosis...
Time for Reminders. To Argentines, the speech was a breath-taking turnabout. Evita Peron's newspaper Democracia rose loyally to the new challenge by delivering a forthright attack on meat: "It will wreck your liver, undermine your health, poison you with proteins and provoke serious digestive disturbances." But the presidential conversion gave the Radical Party weekly Adelante a first-class chance to trounce the regime...
...McCarthy, with the protection of his Senator's privilege, denounced Pearson on the floor of the Senate as a "Communist tool," and called for a boycott on Adam Hats (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951). Last week Pearson finally seemed to have beaten the McCarthy hex. Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid) signed him to a 52-week radio & TV contract, effective in April. But Pearson admitted that his new radio pay will be "less than half" his old $5,500 a week...