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...Last year doctors were agog over a new five-day treatment for early syphilis which used continuous, slow-drip injections of an arsenic compound. Experience has shown, said Dr. Moore, that while the five-day process is "excellent" for treating the syphilitic infection, it brings "an enormous increase in the danger to the patient." A number of patients so treated developed skin poisonings, neuritis, encephalitis. One out of every 300 died, a rate more than four times higher than that in standard treatment...
Parliamentary circles were angrily agog with suspicion that the obsolete and stubborn 1914 military mentality was still in charge at G.H.Q. and that it had been getting a romantic gilding from the eloquence of Winston Churchill. Military Historian Liddell Hart, whose theories of defensive warfare were blasted by Adolf Hitler's Blitzkrieg tactics, broke his recent silence long enough to remark that the British people's hearts of oak were being betrayed by their leaders' oaken heads...
Last week, as the 1941 baseball season was about to begin, baseball experts were perversely all agog about its far-off end. Some of the best dope available came from an exciting dress rehearsal at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. There 48,000 jabbering fans turned out to watch the Dodgers and the New York Yankees, both returned from spring training in the South, play in a three-game exhibition series...
...agog was Harlem last week over a tennis match to be held July 29. Contestants: Don Budge, professional champion, and 23-year-old Jimmy McDaniel of Los Angeles, Negro amateur champion. Never before have black and white champions met on the same tennis court...
...show business was agog with its latest, greatest cause. Special Finnish-benefit performances were announced for eleven Broadway hits, near-hits and near-flops. Stars and casts voted overwhelmingly to donate their talents, provide Mr. Hoover with more money to cable to Helsinki. Only the casts of Tobacco Road and a four-months something called See My Lawyer refused. Newspapers came through with oodles of publicity, especially Mr. Hearst's Bolshevik-hating press...