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...Norlestrin (Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co.), a new, small-dose tablet. >Norinyl (Syntex Laboratories, Inc.), another new, small-dose pill...
...prescribed by Taller. It was bad enough when the Food & Drug Administration retorted that calories do indeed count and that safflower oil is worthless. But Taller's own fat was really in the fire when it came out that he apparently had a financial interest in a safflower-pill manufacturer endorsed in the book. That, said a Federal indictment filed last week, amounts to mail fraud, conspiracy and violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act. If convicted, pudgy Taller faces a maximum of 239 years of good starchy prison fare...
...pills are supposed to be taken every 24 hours. If a woman forgets to take hers at the usually recommended dinner hour, she has about twelve hours of grace; most authorities agree that she will be protected if she goes pill-less for no more than 36 hours...
...Crippen emerges as one of those improbable figures that hold the headlines of the British penny-dreadful press. He is a poor man's pill-pusher, a sallow runt with "codfish eyes" and a large compensatory mustache, which doesn't impress his wife. "You're not a man!" she hoots at him. "Go clean the lodger's boots!" And while her husband cleans the lodger's boots, she nibbles the lodger's ear. After several years of playing the cuckold, creepy little Crippen dares at last to play the man-with a pretty young...
...Sugared Pill. At his best, De Vries constructs palatably subtle parables of human folly. Like one of the minor characters in his book, however, he has a self-conscious horror of stating the obvious. To dress up his homely conclusions, De Vries detours compulsively into literary didoes, lapses into wild parody, wallows in grotesqueries. To be sure, G. B. Shaw sugared his pill to fool the public. But De Vries, apparently, sugars his to fool himself...