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Jorgennen, handicapped by a bad cold and a slight fever, finished fifth in the 220-yard freestyle with a time of 2:12.5. John Glover of Dartmouth won the event in 2:08.4, three-tenths of a second short of Jorgenson's record time against Yale last Saturday...
...Lands of Dakotas, Roosevelt was also a deputy sheriff who won considerable repute catching three rustlers by himself. His African trip has been well recorded, but a remarkable trip up the Amazon at the age of 58, on which he caught an almost fatal does of jungle fever, went without much notice. Critics said he had an adolescent, romantic attitude toward dueling. This much is true: on several occasions he did come close too shooting it out, the most famous time with the Marquis de Mores, an ambitious Frenchman who had built up a rival ranch in the Dakotas...
Though last July's armistice silenced the guns, a mysterious oriental killer has gone on taking the lives of U.S. servicemen in Korea. Epidemic hemorrhagic fever, or Manchurian fever (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951), has killed 17 G.I.s since the fighting ended, and last week 82 were still in the Army's special hospital at Seoul in a long battle to win back their health and strength...
Once the disease strikes, with headache, backache, fever and often hiccups, the doctors can do nothing by way of cure. But they can do much to make the victim more comfortable as the disease progresses, a process marked by hemorrhages in the eyes and under the skin of shoulders and belly, bleeding from kidneys and intestines. In the first place, because of the danger of bleeding from weakened blood vessels, the patient must not be jounced around in a jeep ambulance on his way to a rear area; the medics favor evacuation by helicopter. Because the disease affects the kidneys...
Well stocked with human blood samples, parasites and diseased tissues, the researchers are still hoping to find the answer to hemorrhagic fever...