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...amount of protein in Johnson's blood fell from a normal 6.5% to 3.2%. To overcome this loss, he was fed the equivalent of three to five pounds of meat a day. Besides his regular meals, he got amino acids (milk protein) intravenously, was fed a special soup made from ground meat, eggs and milk by stomach tube. One of the chief medical advances that emerged from the treatment was a method of measuring how much nitrogen a severely burned patient needs...
...food is actually a new kind of yeast, with added flavors that make it almost indistinguishable from natural foods. Its makers, Anheuser-Busch, have demonstrated its possibilities by serving meals including two delicious kinds of soup, meat loaf, muffins, cheese sticks, even pie-all made of varieties of yeast. Since yeast is the richest known source of B vitamins and contains about 50% protein (twice as much as meat), it surpasses meat as sheer food. And pound for pound of protein, yeast costs only a fifth as much as meat...
...Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley is a brass plate: THEY ASSASSINATED THESE GOOD MEN THE SKULKING DOGS...
...wildly, that this gentleman . . . was, indeed, about to be shorn of his locks. However, nothing so apropos happens in this life. I found to my disappointment that a tame and civilized barber, far from doubling for Delilah, was merely obeying Mr. Lewis' orders. These were for his usual soup bowl haircut, accentuating the top foliage...
...Soap and Soup. The Irish-born prelate and his cellmates, four Japanese criminals, spent a good part of each day mashing mosquitoes against the concrete walls of their 9-by-5½-ft. cell. It helped keep down the mosquitoes and it helped pass the time. Once a day the Bishop was escorted to a corridor washbasin - cold water and no soap. One morning a woman prisoner smilingly offered him a piece of soap. The gesture restored his waning faith in human nature. Coarse rice, a piece of pickle, vegetable soup and tepid water were the daily fare, but Bishop...