I was at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles for a radioactive iodine scan, this one at diagnostic levels—less radiation than the therapeutic levels I would eventually endure. I drank my first atomic cocktail: a vial of liquid radioactive iodine diluted in what seemed like gallons of water.

I sent you the chiccory seed for trial, as it is so highly spoken of by A. Young and other British writers, … In foreign countries an imitation of coffee is made, by grinding the dried and burnt roots, and mixing a little real coffee wih the ground roots.

There are two types of low-E coatings, softcoat and hardcoat. Softcoat low-E coatings are vacuum-deposited on the glass after it comes off the float glass manufacturing line.

Former name: Kalkfontein, until renamed in 1939.