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This unpleasant news was first uncovered last spring when Birmingham's city analyst, armed with a new $1,400 spectro-photometer,* began testing vitamin products taken from the shelves of Birmingham pharmacies. His report: 42% of the samples "advertised as containing specified amounts of vitamin A" were no good...
Just published is a book of short Sheehy sermons, broadcast, as he would say, on a serviceman's wave length. Head Over Heels (Farrar, Straus; $2.75) is as studded with fighting-man anecdotes as an old destroyer is with rivets. Samples:
When supermarkets blossomed in the early '30s, the Friedlands were among the first to realize that they would permanently change the food business. They rented an old garage in Harrisburg, launched "The Giant Quality Food Price Cutter, bringing many carloads of the finest foods at ridiculously low prices." Samples...
Traveller's Samples, by Frank O'Connor. Warmhearted Irish stories with an edge to them (TIME, July 16).