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...filed suit for $300,000 against Specific Pharmaceuticals, charging that he had been "poisoned by said stilbestrol and suffered effemination," and as a result "had been rendered permanently impotent" and deprived of "the rights and benefits of marital relations." The complaint asserted that Stepnowski had inhaled the powder and absorbed it through the pores of his skin. Stepnowski's wife Mary (they have been married six years, have no children) sued for another...
...dance craze was sweeping the hemisphere. Part rumba and part jive, with a strong dash of itching powder, the mambo had left unstormed only the tango strongholds of Argentina and the samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...
...stimulated" the reticulo-endothelial system of horses-a group of cells in the liver, spleen, bone marrow and lymphatic tissue which is believed to have some connection with the disease-fighting capacities of the body. Then, from the blood serum of the horses, Durovic extracted and purified a white powder which he believes to contain the regulator substance. He named it Krebiozen, a Greek derivative meaning "creator of biological force...
Whole Cloth. Pabst Brewing Co. put on the market a dry-cleaning powder which literally eats stains from clothing. An enzyme, the powder will digest stains made by eggs, milk, chocolate, coffee, beer. One drawback: if used on a synthetic fabric with a protein base, the powder will eat up the cloth. Price of "Exzyme": $4.50 a pound...
...Next the powder went off under Crane himself. The president of the A.F.L. International Association of Fire Fighters sent him a telegram from Washington asking him to resign as the International's vice president. Crane with consummate audacity replied: "It is indeed unfortunate . . . that you see fit to indulge in petty politics . . ." He was suspended forthwith. But the New York local of the union seemed perfectly content to keep him on as its president...