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...wanted to miss the meeting ... Those who lacked funds for the journey went looking for patrons. Those who, like Greflinger, had found no patron were carried to their destination by obstinacy. And those whose obstinacy might have deterred them from starting in time were infected with travel fever by the news that others were already on their way. Even such men as Zesen and Rist, who counted each other as enemies, were intent on meeting. Logau's curiosity about the meeting proved even stronger than his scorn for the assembled poets. Their local surroundings were too constricting. No business...
...President's fever was gone and his lung unclogged. Slightly gaunt, but on the mend, he padded last week at half speed around his hospital room. Then at week's end Ronald Reagan was driven in a limousine from George Washington University Hospital back home to the White House. Awaiting him there were some 75,000 letters and telegrams, several meadows' worth of flowers and an even ton of jelly beans...
...week he was walking down the hospital corridor, and doctors were predicting that barring complications he might return to the White House this week and be able to resume all physical activities, including riding, within three months. One complication surfaced at week's end: Reagan ran a fever of 102°. Said Aaron: "It's a little bit of a setback...
Although a spokesman at George Washington University Hospital said Thursday that Reagan, the victim of the seventh assassination attempt upon a major national political figure since 1963, had been making "super" progress since doctors remove a bullet from his left lung late Monday afternoon, the president yesterday developed a fever which hit 102 degrees...
DIED. Rebecca C. Lancefield, 86, bacteriologist, who in 1928 was the first to identify which streptococci are chiefly responsible for causing human disease, and systematically went on to categorize more than 60 different types, including those that cause strep throat, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis, an inflammation of the kidneys; in New York City. Lancefield joined Manhattan's Rockefeller University as a technical assistant in 1918 because "it was the only place that answered my job letters," and continued to work there until last November...