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...similar to the first, this time lasting a day or two. Only once before this stage had been observed. It was not until the final, clinical stage, occurring 10 to 15 days after irradiation, that the traditional signs of the illness were evident. In this stage, the animals developed fever, the white corpuscle count went down, they lost appetite and weight...
...game of judgment, it is unequalled. As a cure for spring fever, it is guaranteed. But as the newest sport in collegiate circles, it is rejected, at least on local ground. The H.A.A. lacks the funds to send a team on road trips...
...Fever Dew In Sicily. King Richard gathers his host at Vézelay in France, and there the two squires meet a brilliant young Frenchman, Guy de Passy. John is puzzled by the fellow, Robert not. "It is this manner of the great world about him that astonishes and charms you," he says to John. "I think he rates us lowly . . . myself discontented and half a monk; you a staunch simpleton . . . I would say he is one of those people who may perish of their own cleverness...
Robert's brow is the first to take a fever dew for this belle dame sans merci, and soon the two are sighing full sore. John begins to thirst after the lady, too, but being a practical fellow, quenches himself at her serving maid. Guy comes along a little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...
Precisely at this point, the book ends; and with the book, Radiguet's life ended too. He received the proofs as he lay dying of typhoid fever. "Listen," he said. Listen to something terrible. In three days I am going to be shot by the soldiers God. . . I heard the order." Three days later, Raymond Radiguet died. He was 20. Age is nothing," he had written. "All great poets have written at seventeen. The greatest are those who succeed in making one forget it." Radiguet can make a reader forget everything but the cool grace...