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While Dr. Lancefield has worked at the Rockefeller Institute refining her findings, other researchers have learned to describe strep germs by their "Lancefield classification." That name, though unknown to the general public, has become a byword among bacteriologists and medical researchers who have applied the Lancefield findings to the control of rheumatic fever-and, consequently, to the prevention of countless cases of mitral-valve damage. Dr. Lancefield's latest work has been devoted to pinning down the kinds of strep, and the nature of their poisons involved in glomerulonephritis-one of the commonest, deadliest and most baffling of kidney...
...think that the somewhat feverish Bogey revival now being enjoyed by the Harvard-Radcliffe sect should be placed in its more proper perspective. Bogey has been a byword at Bryn Mawr for years. Bogart Week on the Late Show has always drawn capacity crowds in the TV rooms here, and yet our appreciation is not confined to faddist imitations...
...Sister Luc-Gabrielle were light, melodic, and as gently pleasing as the sounds of a country evening. Instead of the few pressings requested, Philips turned out thousands, sent them out into the commercial slipstream as the album of "Soeur Sourire" (Sister Smile). Almost instantly, Soeur Sourire became a byword throughout Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Canada, Switzerland and Germany...
...with a spring in his step and a great fund of natural humility." Bert is so good at this kind of pap, in fact, that he decides to make a career of it; soon his essays, his Father Danny stories and occasional poems make the name Flax a byword among Catholic ladies...
Today only 26 stamps are known to exist of that first issue of 500 bearing Mr. Barnard's inconsequential slip, which made a philatelic byword out of the phrase "Post Office Mauritius." The one-and twopenny samples that were up for auction last week by the London firm of Robson Lowe, Ltd. had left Mauritius on a letter to a wine merchant in Bordeaux (it took 85 days to get there). As well as being rare, they were in excellent condition. So when the bidding reached ?27,500, Raymond H. Weill, a New Orleans dealer, made his only...