Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate seat of Olin D. Johnston for 1950. He probably had more to gain than to lose by running as the rebels' candidate for President. He was picked because he was the most willing and eager. Fielding Wright, 53-year-old lawyer, who is as smooth and cold as a hardboiled egg -and whose home town of Rolling Fork, Miss., has more Negroes than whites-was glad to run as the vice presidential candidate...
...even more famous cat and mother: Sally, a sleek, green-eyed Persian owned by pawky Sunday Express Columnist Nat Gubbins. The proud mother of 126 kittens produced at the rate of 2½ kittens a throw, Sally always treated Gubbins' ribald remarks about her fertility with cold disdain. During the war she conducted a long and frosty correspondence in her master's columns with a Russian cat who advocated scientific speedups in kitten production. At the ripe age of 14, Sally died giving birth to one final litter in her good old hit-or-miss...
...Machine. At the controls of the Drew machine was Alexander D. McKenzie, a Toronto lawyer with cold blue eyes, a hard jaw and a nice sense of timing. Under McKenzie's direction, Drew workers exerted no visible pressure. But the invisible pressure was irresistible. It built up gradually day by day as McKenzie carefully organized "spontaneous" gatherings of delegates, then called in Drew to radiate charm and say nothing...
Penicillin is not supposed to work against viruses-but it has been working fine against the common cold, which is often caused by a virus. During the past few months, many cold sufferers who wouldn't know a virus if one sneezed in their faces have felt better after sniffing penicillin dust up their noses from little plastic inhalers...
...certain yet just why penicillin dust works on colds. But last week's Journal of the American Medical Association published a cautious and belated plug lor a treatment that has already become popular. A group of doctors who tried inhaled penicillin dust on 169 cold patients reported that it helped 80%. Often the patients' noses came unplugged and they could breathe more easily immediately after the treatment...