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...Anglesey. Wales, Lady Megan Lloyd-George, left-leaning Liberal daughter of a famed Liberal father, lost the parliamentary seat she had held for 22 years. But her brother, Gwilym Lloyd-George, styling himself a Liberal Conservative, got elected. ¶ In Colne Valley, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, right-leaning Liberal daughter of another Prime Minister, Asquith, and a friend for whom Churchill himself had campaigned, went down to defeat...
...symptoms of the disease that brought Dr. Joe Albert Risser hurrying to his office in little (pop. 7,043) Bonham, Texas early on the morning of July 31 sounded a good deal like those of polio. The local druggist had a fever of 101, was pale and sweating, had sharp, constricting pains in his chest muscles. When an examination showed nothing wrong, Dr. Risser gave him a sedative and sent him home. Within four hours, the druggist called again. The pains had stopped, he said, and he felt fine, just a little tired...
Twenty-four hours later, the druggist was stricken again, this time less severely. The druggist's wife came down with the same symptoms; so did his three children. More patients fell ill. Dr. Risser got six frantic calls in one day. By mid-August, Bonham was in the grip of an epidemic. The cases were all the same: two swift, polio-like attacks followed by rapid recovery. Dr. Risser, a former Army epidemiologist, consulted his medical books, wrote the U.S. Public Health Service that Bonham had been hit by epidemic pleurodynia ("devil's grip"), probably caused...
...last week, the epidemic of Coxsackie in Texas had spread beyond Bonham to other parts of Fannin County. Close to 8,000 people, one out of every five, had gotten it, and Texans claimed that it was the biggest epidemic of Coxsackie ever recorded. The National Institute of Health had a special team on the spot to get specimens of saliva, blood, and urine for lab analysis. Doctors speculated that the Coxsackie virus might act as a deterrent to polio. Only one case has been reported in Fannin County this summer...
...three-week vacation from congressional worries, House Speaker Sam Rayburn heard some bad news from his home in Bonham, Texas: 5,000 bales of his summer hay, stored in a barn before it was cured, had caught fire by spontaneous combustion, burned down the barn, crop...