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...discharge as a Marine captain, and signed up (for an estimated $50,000) for the rest of the season, Ted Williams stepped up for his first batting practice in over a year, sprayed Boston's Fenway Park with line drives, quit 15 minutes later with a quarter-sized blister on his right palm...
Hitch that blister, disk and plow...
...diseases most likely to be confused with polio are caused by the viruses of encephalitis (at least three forms) and mumps. Even the lowly, and usually harmless, virus of the fever blister can, like these, occasionally cause a severe inflammation of the central nervous system with widespread paralysis, or even death. At the Children's Medical Center in Boston, Dr. Enders and his colleagues are now busy screening cultures from 150 of this year's "polio" patients. Their results should be a big addition to medicine's slim store of knowledge about pseudopolio...
...surface texture." In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the architects rushed up so many new Oxford colleges that the stone was often used "unseasoned" and without regard for the lie of the strata in the quarry. The result: "Within a few decades the poor quality freestones began to blister, flake, and fall away . . . Whole buildings fell into a premature and degraded...
Play to Win. The White Sox' surprising spree came as no shock to Detroit pitchers who used to burn them in to Richards when he caught for Detroit's 1945 world champions. Catcher Richards used to blister the ball right back if he thought they were not trying hard enough, and he still growls when he thinks of baseball's casual losers: "They blow a game and they're not even mad about it." When the White Sox lose, Freshman Manager Richards implies, someone had better show some indignation...