The Press: Pineapple v. Pineapple

Colonel Robert Rutherford (“Bertie”) McCormick is a farsighted—often a gloomily farsighted—man. Last month he set aside the Chicago Tribune Tower’s lowest sub-basement as an atom-bomb shelter (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week he announced that he would stock the (future) dugout with a little (future) mild refreshment. He assured the 3,000 Tower employees that the refuge would be “equipped [for us] to live there 24 hours. . . .” Among its provisions: “an adequate supply of canned pineapple . . . the best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice.”

Commented Dr. Erich Uhlmann, expert in radium therapy and director of the tumor clinic at Chicago’s Michael Reese Hospital: “Yes, and if you bow east three times, it helps too. . . .”