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From the start, Private Hargrove (a former reporter on the Charlotte News) was something of a dud when it came to neatness, drill, getting up on time. He spent most of his early days on K.P. and ether punitive details...
...foot (dermatophytosis)-the itch caused by the toe-burrowing fungi dermatophytes which infest locker rooms and swimming pools-there are at least a hundred bland salves and powders on the market. Favorites: boric acid and sulfur powders, salves of salicylic acid and benzoic acid mixed with vaseline; an ether-collodion mixture. These generally clear up the mild, itching cases which annoy millions of people...
Welcomed back to the ether with loud huzzas last week was General Motors, largest of automakers, and a pioneer radio sponsor in the carefree days of the '20s when broadcasters had practically nothing to worry about but signing them on the dotted line. General Motors had played hookey from the air for four years. The harassed networks hopefully interpreted the return of the prodigal as a further swing by industry to institutional radio advertising, to keep names and brands in the public ear. Present examples: Bell Telephone, Du Pont, Wheeling Steel, General Electric...
Last July and August, during polio outbreaks in rural Connecticut and Alabama, and in Cleveland and Atlanta, the doctors trapped thousands of flies in those parts. They mashed up the flies in sterile water or ether, gave it to monkeys in feedings, injections or nosedrops. Down came the monkeys with polio...
...similar to the one formed in the last war, with two-thirds of the student body constantly drilling; already a few horrified calamity-howlers are foretelling the closing of College after finals. As President Roosevelt said, nothing breeds unconfirmed rumors like the electric atmosphere of wartime. And Harvard's ether is charged to the explosion point...