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...gall bladder is a "pear-shaped sack . . . [which] hangs from the under surface of the liver like a droplight from a ceiling." The liver manufactures from 30 to 50 ounces of bile every day, and the overflow (up to one ounce) pours into the gall bladder. From this tank, as well as from the liver, the bile trickles into the small intestine, where it helps digest fats...
...conquering Germans have requisitioned nothing from unoccupied France because, except for its huge wine industry, no important staples come from the unoccupied area. Mother Filloux still serves her internationally relished goose-liver pâté and fat-breasted pullets on her terrace at Lyon. Broiled trout are still to be had at the famed little Hôtel du Château at Randan, and crawfish at Robinson's, outside Vichy. The good & great cooks of France will see that she goes hungry palatably. But there are no more tarts in Vichy. Apple tarts have disappeared from...
Died. Georgia Coleman, 28, blonde, onetime (1932) Olympic champion diver; of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. Her career snipped short by infantile paralysis in 1937, Diver Coleman made a heroic recovery, learned to swim all over again...
...distances ranging from 70 to 13 ft. At 50 ft. lung damage began to occur, and at less than 18 ft. almost all the animals were killed. He printed a photograph of a pair of concussed rabbit lungs so deeply suffused with hemorrhagic blood that they looked like raw liver...
...Says Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon to TIME: "It's you who are in Dutch, not me." But though he did not mention cannibalism, Author Van Loon believes that, like other primitive peoples, the Sandwich Islanders customarily ate the heart, liver and eyes of people whom they killed, did so to Captain Cook. Reason: thereby they hoped to gain the virtues of their victims...