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...Elusive Critter. What was it? Reporting the 1955 outbreak in detail in the A.M.A.'s current Archives of Internal Medicine, Drs. William L. Wilson, Charles D. Williams, Saul L. Sanders and Richard R.P. Warner (now back in civilian practice) rule out various diseases that exhibit some but not all of the same symptoms-notably infectious mononucleosis and infectious hepatitis. (Also eliminated is a bacterial disease, leptospirosis.) Though similarly baffling, the mysterious complaint is medically distinct from the strange epidemics of "Iceland disease" that have swept some London hospitals and Punta Gorda, Fla. (TIME...
...researchers are convinced from the way the disease spread to doctors, nurses and corpsmen that it is caused by a virus. But they could never catch the critter. And though its effects partly resemble those of some of the Coxsackie viruses, it does not respond to any of the tests for that group. The best the doctors can do is to call it "Ardmore disease," and hope that some clues will turn...
Arkansas, part delta and part mountain, part magnolia and part moonshine, where a horse is a "critter" and a heifer is a "cow brute," is given to such place names as Loafer's Glory, Bug Tussle, Hell for Sartain, Hog Scald, Nellie's Apron-and, perhaps most remote of them all, Greasy Creek in the Ozark forests of the northwest, where Orval Faubus was born 47 years ago in a candlelighted cabin...
What made the little critter (Geomys bursarius) so fascinating to Scientist Hisaw was the nature of its pregnancy. To get around in its narrow burrows the animal has to have narrow hips, and its pubic bones are compressed, leaving an opening too small to let a female deliver its young. But millions of pocket-gopher squeals testify that the female can deliver. In 1925 Dr. Hisaw discovered how: during pregnancy the female pocket gopher secretes a hormone that causes part of the pubic bones to dissolve, leaving a wider opening. Hisaw named the hormone "relaxin" (TIME, April...
...Blackburn has invented a Crockett filled with engaging crotchets: when first encountered, Davy is deep in the piney woods taking time off from Indian-fighting to try to "grin" a bear into submission. This budding effort at psychological warfare fails, and Davy needs a knife to subdue the critter. Throughout the picture, the heroic act is never far removed from the owlish legpull: when Crockett comes prancing into Congress garbed in backwoods buckskins, neither he nor anyone else pretends that these are his idea of city clothes or that his "by-cracky" freshman speech is anything...