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...Good! Across its pages strutted a wonderful, viciously funny parade of balloon-shaped generals and admirals, gorilla-faced noncoms and forlorn, tortured G.I.s. Last week Osborn finally paid his respects to civilian life with a book called Low & Inside (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If anything, the sequel is even deadlier and more acidly humorous than the original...
Human Test Tube. Less common but deadlier forms of tuberculosis are meningeal, in which the bacilli attack the covering of the brain and spinal cord, and miliary, in which they spread throughout the system. Untreated, both meningeal and miliary tuberculosis commonly kill within two or three months, and about one-third of the victims get only temporary help from streptomycin. To researchers, a patient with miliary TB is like a human test tube. The course of his disease is so predictable that they can tell just what a drug is doing...
...people of Cicero by such unwarranted bigotry have created a deadlier effect on my morale and on hundreds of other Negroes here than any Communist bullets...
...Blows thrown with almost the same motion as that used by a softball pitcher. More spectacular-looking than the shorter, deadlier uppercut, the bolo is telegraphed by its windup, hence is not normally effective as a knockout punch...
Meanwhile, in Brighton, officials were battling a comparatively tiny but potentially far deadlier invader-epidemic smallpox. Compared to the sprawling, shapeless influenza blight, it was easy to pin down. The lethal virus had been brought to Britain by an R.A.F. officer who had flown in from Karachi to visit his girl friend, a Brighton telephone operator. It passed from the flyer to the girl to her father. The father died. Before the girl's case could be properly diagnosed, three nurses at the Bevendean Infectious Disease Hospital had caught it. The flyer's clothes had been sent...