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...Wondrous Pill. Implicit in the Administration plan was an admission that the Government's present parity program was getting out of hand. It used to be a way of guaranteeing the farmer the purchasing power he had during the good years 1910-14; it was a lot more generous than that now, and infinitely more complicated. The Administration proposed to continue buying storable crops like wheat, corn and tobacco, to keep their prices up. But for perishables, such as meat, poultry, milk, vegetables-75% of the yearly farm output-the Government had something new to offer. It would...
...Coolidge twice vetoed it; Henry Wallace bought the farmer and got away with it. Secretary Brannan's program was an even higher bid for the U.S. farmer's favor than any Henry had thought up. Said the New York Times's Arthur Krock: ". . . no more wondrous pill was ever compounded in the pharmacy of politics." The National Farmers Union, itself an expert concocter of pills, thought the Brannan plan was really wonderful, hailed it as a "milestone." The powerful American Farm Bureau Federation thought it sounded pretty revolutionary...
Last week a group of geriatrists (specialists in diseases of old age) met in Philadelphia to compare notes. The bad news: the medical profession has not found-and probably never will find-a pill to make a middle-aged man feel 18 again. But the doctors are by no means pessimistic about other phases of their work...
...Brady's miracle formula is: One month before examinations begin taking two grains of quinine sulfate in pill tablet, or capsule form, night and morning after meals. Continue doing so through exam period. At the same time take a Vitamin B-1 pill daily...
...when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked for a nail file. Then, sprinkling the powder on the file and sniffing it, she said: "This is really the only way it's effective, dahling...