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...went to the doctor's office with a sore throat, swelling on one side of his face and neck, and enlarged lymph glands. The boy recovered in a couple of days without treatment. Next came his three-month-old baby brother, also suffering from a swollen neck, fever, and a lump bigger than a golf ball at the base of his neck. The baby had apparently never been scratched by the family kitten, but Dr. Snyder concluded that the lump in his neck was his thymus gland, swollen by a cat-scratch infection that had probably penetrated the skin...
Copley never went back to America: he became a highly successful member of the Royal Academy. Little Susannah, who sits in her grandfather's lap, was to die of scarlet fever at the age of nine. John Singleton Copley Jr., shown embracing his mother, became Lord Chancellor of England. One of his sisters (at right, in the painting) devoted her life to him, dying a spinster at the age of 95. The other, Elizabeth, the determined little figure standing in the center, went back to America. She married a Bostonian, as did her daughter Martha, who, as Mrs. Charles...
...Memorial Day breather gave Wall Street's harassed brokers and clerks a chance to catch up, and the nation time to absorb the news that the market was hardening. By Friday noon, as the buying fever subsided, the ticker tape caught up with orders for the first time since Monday. At the week's close, the Dow-Jones stood at 611.05-almost exactly even with the previous week's close of 611.88, before the Blue Monday began...
...Strategic Air Command's most imposing physical specimens. Half, designated as controls, had been given routine inoculations-an average of 40 shots per man. The other half-the test group-had been riddled with some 70 shots per man-dosed with eleven varieties of vaccine, ranging from yellow fever to Japanese B encephalitis. Subjects in both groups were regularly examined with X rays, electrocardiograms and blood tests, and when the evidence was in, doctors discovered that neither group had suffered any ill effects...
FRIDAY: Selling fever rises. As volume climbs to a 14-month high of 6,380,000 shares, the tape runs progressively later, lags 18 minutes behind at the close...