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...classics and the old-fashioned virtues at Boston's Roxbury Latin School. The son of a doctor, young Paul sometimes got to drive his father's horse & buggy. He soon knew that he meant to be a doctor himself; when his sister died of rheumatic fever, he began to focus his interest on heart diseases. Intern White was sent to England to buy the Massachusetts General Hospital's first electrocardiograph and learn to run the new-fangled thing. That was in 1913. Dr. White has been taking tracings of heart impulses ever since. He has gone...
...production, regretably, was not up to the quality of the script. A lack of integration marked first part and in a scene at the palace of Anides, the characters seemed isolated when the drama was at fever pitch. There was also a tendency, most disconcerting in short dialogue, to depend more and more on the script towards the end. Musical accompaniment and a good touch at the end helped to cover up some of the inadequacies...
...Ellison, a 15-year-old Alexandria, Va. high-school girl, was puzzled to find that in some textbook versions of the poem Sea Fever ("I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky"), the word "go" was omitted. She sent her problem to the author and back came a hand-written note from John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England since 1930, who wrote: "The word 'go' should be in the line. In some editions it dropped out somehow, but is now restored. It is the original reading...
...mysterious disease which starts like a common cold but kills its infant victims within hours was worrying doctors and parents in Tacoma, Wash. The sixth victim, three-month-old David Le Fever, was found to have died of double-edged pneumonia: simultaneous virus and pneumococcus infections...
...Mexico was as hard hit as anywhere. In Espanola, the schools were closed because 472 pupils were absent and 325 more had to be sent home because they started running fevers. Many another town closed its schools. In Santa Fe, nearly every family had at least one victim of the fever. But doctors (many of them ill too) agreed that everybody was getting better fast...