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...Weak to Live. "Scurvy was conspicuous by its absence. . . . The abdominal distention was often associated with a small umbilical hernia . . . watery diarrhea and a tendency to pass food unaltered. It was difficult to persuade many of these cases to eat. . . . Many complained of cough and produced a white frothy sputum which I took to be due to edema of the lungs. . . . The heart was sometimes moderately enlarged and the heart sounds diminished in volume. . . . A more or less severe secondary anemia was invariably present. . . . Amenorrhea and sterility were extremely common...
Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney, red-haired cough-syrup heiress (TIME, April 19, 1943), who romped off to Buenos Aires two years ago after divorcing husband No. 5 and denouncing the U.S., declared herself finished with Nazi Baron Herbert von Strempel (up-to-the-last-minute favorite for No. 6) and ready to marry again. Her new intended was 20-year-old Carlos Ojeda, son of Mexico's Ambassador to Argentina. A short-time Columbia student, Carlos spoke enough English to reveal that she was "the most perfect cook I ever saw; she captured me by the tummy." Cried the thirtyish...
Calling All Cars. In Chicago, Captain Wilbur Kennedy of the state police heard so many complaints from harassed and embarrassed couples that he issued an order: when approaching parked cars on dark and lonely roads, troopers are to cough, whistle or croon a lovesong...
...time it stormed. Once Severn, who was himself ill (he had had typhus and a liver com plaint), came upon Keats during a hemorrhage and stumbled away to the stern of the ship, because the sight of so much suffering was unbearable. "He heard again that ghostly cough ; he saw again the poor white face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church of Santa Trinita de' Monti, overlooking a fountain built in the shape...
...whooping-cough epidemic in 1908 quarantined Baltimore school children at home. The faculty of Calvert School mailed lessons to its whoopers, later developed a Home Instruction Division for grades from kindergarten to first year high school. Thanks to this necessity-mothered beginning, children can get a standard U.S. education anywhere the U.S. mails can reach...