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...Keefe half-hour, and give battle to Pot o' Gold as well, CBS on Dec. 19 raked up a radio program called Court of Missing Heirs, which had a brisk radio career two years ago in the Midwest, tracing heirs to unclaimed fortunes. Pecking away at a guesstimated pile of $160,000,000 in unclaimed estates in the U. S., Court of Missing Heirs so far this season has told the world about $350,000 awaiting long-lost brothers, errant sons, all manner of scattered kith & siblings...
...Jordan, of Culloden, Ga., went to British Columbia years ago and made a pile in gold. He died last year, left his fortune to his three brothers, Bob, Dan and Gee, an infantile paralysis cripple. Gee's share was $13,000. But he had left home years before, after a quarrel. Last Bob & Dan heard of him, he was peddling shoelaces and razor blades around Pittsburgh. Last week Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Gee Jordan's case. In Pittsburgh, a 63-year-old "newsboy" friend of 52 -year-old Gee heard the broadcast, located him, sick...
...paraded before 750,000. In the Motion Picture Herald's, annual Exhibitors' Ten Best for 1939, Autry was top Western star for the third straight year, a record made phenomenal by the fact that his pictures rarely if ever have hit the big, first-run theatres, but pile up their popularity abroad and in the sticks...
...paradoxes pile up: He has less to say and has consistently said less at his press conferences than any Cabinet member; yet with the sole exception of the White House, they are the best-attended in town. A backwoods Congressman, he is the No. 1 U. S. Internationalist. An old-fashioned Jeffersonian free-trader, he has lived and worked at the heart of the centralized, streamlined nationalism of the New Deal for almost seven years-and has changed the New Deal more than it has changed...
...spongy tissue which straddle the windpipe. Doctors have long worried over the relation between: 1) metabolism; 2) supercharging of the thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism); 3) diabetes. In hyperthyroidism, bodily functions are stepped up, and food is rapidly consumed in a roaring fire of metabolism. After meals, sugars (including digested starches) pile up in the bloodstream. Some of the sugars are converted into furious nervous energy. The excess spills over into the urine, is quickly excreted. Sufferers from hyperthyroidism are spare and undernourished, for their food is so quickly burned up that their body tissues receive little nourishment...