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...basic rules of cleanliness, typhoid is a rare disease. When it erupts in a place that prides itself on good sanitation, as it did in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt 18 months ago, it causes a violent flap. Last week there was a new typhoid flap in clean Aberdeen, Scotland (pop. 186,000). There were 324 confirmed cases (two deaths) and 55 suspected, with still more expected...
...Aberdeen's medical officer, Dr. Ian MacQueen, was certain that he had found the explanation: "There is no shadow of doubt that this outbreak started from a tin of corned beef." The meat was in a 6-lb. can and had come from South America. In an Aberdeen delicatessen it was sliced on a machine that was also used to slice other meats. The infected machine spread the infection to these meats and to the customers who ate them. As the statistics of sickness piled up, the British government ordered a top-level inquiry to find out just where...
...what else. Then, last September, their family of five was suddenly doubled by the arrival of quintuplets. Goodbye ten pins, hello diaper pins. But last week Mary Ann, 30, turned up at the Women's International Bowling Congress at Minneapolis as captain of the United Mattress Team of Aberdeen, S. Dak. Still notably trim despite all, she rolled an average 164 for the tourney, ten points over her previous average. And the ten kids? Why, just like anyone else, Mary Ann got her mom to look after the darlings...
...interested in earning a niche in journalism's record book than in providing newspapers for the profit of his male descendants. Today, there are 21 Ridders to work the chain, a figure that neatly corresponds with the number of Ridder newspapers. The papers vary in size from the Aberdeen, S. Dak., American-News (circ. 21,000) to the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch (227,000 combined). But they all have one thing in common: a Herman Ridder heir at the helm...
...there was no slowing the celebration down. Gifts for the Fischer babies flooded Aberdeen. They ranged from cattle feed for the cows that Andrew Fischer now milks by hand for his five older children to baby shoes and a fur-trimmed coat for Mrs. Fischer. Through its chamber of commerce, Aberdeen decided to build a $100,000 house for the Fischers. And as the loot piled up, Income Tax Boss Mortimer Caplin reminded his agents that all such unsolicited gifts, for which the Fischers performed no service, were taxfree. But taxes would be due on a $75,000 Saturday Evening...