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...With a "semi-scream," Castang summoned Josephine to the phone. At his whimpering mimicry of the chimpanzee mating call. Ape Josephine first looked startled, then so pleased that Ape George, becoming angry, shouldered his mate from the phone, pulled frantically at the cage's bars. With a sharp cough-like cry, Castang cursed George. George cursed Castang. Castang, with a show of temper, roared a warning that drove both George & Josephine cringing to a corner. The trainer then laughed with giggle-like simian laughter and the conversation closed...
Symptoms of this widespread disease are well known: first, congested, watery eyes, sensitive to light; at the same time, or a few hours later, an acute cold, sneezing, running nose, harsh cough. Within 24 to 48 hours the special signs of measles appear on the inside surfaces of the cheeks and lips. These are bright red spots with minute bluish-white centres. On the fourth day of the attack, bluish red spots appear behind the ears, at the border of the hair, at the temples, at the back of the neck, and spread over the entire body. The rash usually...
...known.* The other is a Japanese type. Other, puzzling forms are: epidemic encephalitis, which Dr. Margaret Holden of Columbia University believes is also caused by a virus; Australian X disease; encephalitis following inoculation against diphtheria (rare); encephalitis following an attack of infectious disease, such as chickenpox, measles, whooping cough. Also of undetermined origin is the famed case of Chicago's Patricia Maguire, 31, who, drowsing for five and a half years, last week could not undergo a badly needed excision of an abdominal tumor because she suffers from inflammation of the veins of her legs...
...Egyptian. His Late Majesty accomplished this by confiscating the estates of the mad Prince Ahmed Seif Eddin. That he was mad or at least mad at King Fuad, the Prince proved decisively by firing a bullet which lodged in His Majesty's throat. This made Fuad I often cough and gurgle horribly, and His Majesty carried the bullet to his tomb...
...Deaf (a $2,000,000 insurance company exclusively for deaf-mutes), N. A. D.'s President Kenner who owns a Manhattan printing establishment and insurance bureau. In general, nonetheless, discontent ruled the convention. Scarcely a finger was crooked concerning the causes of deaf-mutism (chiefly whooping cough, scarlet fever, various types of meningitis, severe falls). But knuckles bent, palms flipped, wrists twisted over many grievances...