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...movements of a pigeon deprived of thiamin "consist in turning cart wheels and aimless floppings as if freshly decapitated." A human being, similarly starved of this nutritional necessity, may die of sudden heart failure. Less spectacular effects of B2 deficiency are, according to investigators, degeneration of the nervous system, enlargement of the heart, atrophy of muscles, loss of appetite, atony of the colon, stomach ulcers, loss of weight, failure to grow...
Before her first appearance in Jones Beach operetta, pretty June Havoc (real name: Evangeline June Hovick), sister of Louise Hovick (Gypsy Rose Lee), announced: "My sister always was the beauty of the family. All of a sudden people tell me I'm beautiful. Maybe the pills I've been taking have done...
...attack which could stop NLRB's work: a change in the Wagner Labor Act itself. Although employers' talk of amending the Act has met little response from Congress, for a time last week it looked as if NLRB in its hour of triumph might be given a sudden jolt...
...Pugh, however, was a prominent anti-Machenite: the man who, in 1934, was credited with perfecting the legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...
...finally) admits (in torment) that he merely cringes at black skin. As regards white women, he claims to follow the footsteps of St. Paul. But when, on a holy pilgrimage to Rome, he is easily seduced by a sophisticated adventuress, he admits he is more pained by her sudden coldness than by his sin. Marrying a thin, homely servant girl, whose amiable vulgarity ever after disgusts him, he admits when she dies that his ego misses...