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...Maine finances, Runnells shot himself (not fatally) in the chest. He called it an accident. Governor Lewis O. Barrows learned of shortages of at least $72,000 in State funds, which Run nells had handled for eight years, was told that Runnells had been a large and lavish liver, a collector of nude snapshots (some of Augusta women). Last week authorities were hunting for the photo graphic subjects, to ask for more details of Controller Runnells' various affairs...
...Supercharger." Glycogen, a form of starch manufactured in the liver, is the substance which the body uses for quick energy. When glycogen is consumed, lactic acid is produced-mostly a waste product since a good part of it breaks down into carbon dioxide and water. But some lactic acid is reconverted into glycogen, which is then available for further energy release. Last week Dr. George Bogdan Kistiakowsky and five co-workers of Harvard compared this operation to that of a gasoline engine supercharger, which uses the energy of exhaust gases to pump air at high pressure into the firing cylinders...
...more pugnacious predecessors. It furnished a safety-valve for a lot of steam raised by the spring sun from rain-soaked undergraduate souls. Naturally it woke up a few people, but there were no serious fights, no property damaged and no one was hurt. Ho hum, pass the liver pills, Roderick...
...Vitamin B1 (thiamin): for beriberi, anorexia, certain heart disturbances, inadequate lactation, nerve diseases of alcoholism, facial neuralgia, cirrhosis of the liver, sciatica...
...cancer; in Wellington, N. Z. He introduced the 40-hour week, raised basic wages, scared business, but kept power through London credits and urban labor votes. Suffering from stomach cancer, he refused to be operated on during the campaign of 1938, found last year it had spread to his liver...