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...Exhort and comfort! Comfort and exhort! . . . Up rises our old friend, Mr. A. V. Alexander of the Admiralty to tell us that all's well and the Navy's there. Then, optimism breaking out like a rash over the face of the press, his ever-loving colleague, Mr. Ernie Bevin . . . has to come clattering down like a load of bricks on our heads to tell us that we're too complacent and that times are going to get even tougher. Now if Alex and Ernie could only arrange to make a bookkeeping entry instead of a newspaper...
...retired Italian laborer with a bright red rash, recently treated in Boston City Hospital,* was a curious and fascinating case to many doctors - especially cancer researchers. He was apparently the first clinical case of egg-white disease, an ailment previously produced only in laboratories by feeding experimental subjects an inordinate amount of raw egg white (or a chemical extracted from it, avidin...
...lately lived on little else. His rate of consumption: one to four quarts of wine a day, two to six dozen eggs a week. To be certain of enough fresh eggs, he left his family a few years ago to start a chicken farm. The strange eczema-like rash, which had grown redder and flakier for five years, soon faded on hospital diet, but the patient was still sick with other ailments unconnected with egg white - a urinary tract infection, chronic bronchitis, heart disease, cancer...
...fantastic patient's condition ran contrary to this theory. Even when the hospital restored his egg and wine diet, in an effort to bring his rash into full flower again, his cancer progressed. One possible explanation: perhaps the bacteria of his urinary tract infection were making biotin, sending enough into his blood to cancel stupendous quantities of avidin and feed the cancer besides...
...will worth while ... Anything that happened to his company's personnel at the Regimental Hall last week this column knows nothing about and is not responsible for ... Norm Bradley was back on time Sunday night, which makes news ... Hay, Resenthal, how's the soap chip business Hariford Hop ... Bob Rash and Mcauly were really in the glow at the Siatler Saturday are ... Heard on the Sieg line, "How does Philbrick find so much variety...