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...insect sting is another man's poison. In Rye, N.Y. last week, Charles Pilger Jr., 28, was stung by a bee, died a few minutes later when his swollen larynx closed. In Vancouver, B.C., 17-month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis...
Chance of a Lifetime. In Detroit, Edward Jefferson was acquitted after he told the judge how he happened to knock a policeman to the sidewalk: "I saw a big bee land just above the officer's collar on the back of his neck and I didn't want him to get stung, so I hit the bee as hard as I could...
...most far-ranging minds of the 20th Century is recovering from an annoying bout with the flu. In his 88th year, Philosopher George Santayana takes his ailments philosophically. His many would-be visitors feel them more keenly. Formerly host to every sensitive traveler with a metaphysical bee in his Baedeker, Santayana now restricts himself to old friends. Comparative solitude comes as no penance to a man who has long preferred a cloistered life, and shared for the past ten years the placid round of a Roman Catholic retreat...
...Things were a little tense until Mr. Bee spoke for two or three minutes at our first meeting. He said he's still willing to stand behind those men. He still believes they're innocent...
...didn't really have a set pattern," Smith pointed out, "which is probably why we lost. We were just supposed to crows the bucket on defense. Mr. Bee wasn't at all strict with us in practice, as I'd heard he was with his own boys. All of us were used to handling the ball a lot and he just sort of fitted us in where he thought we'd do the most good...