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...waft of sherry in the air and popcorn crackling over a file. Or it may be his willingness to talk about his four children with just as much interest as on Latin American diplomacy. At any rate, McGann always enjoys chatting with students, although he is in the most feverish period of his academic career...
...Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). The son of a nobleman, Lautrec was crippled in childhood and grew up an ugly, aristocratic dwarf who tried, in cognac and in the brothels and bistros of Paris, to forget the pain in his legs and heart. When he died at 37, after a feverish lifetime that included a sojourn in a madhouse, he left behind him a vivid record of the lower depths of Paris, its harlots and hunted, defeated and disfigured, drawn with artistry, insight and compassion...
...Russia, Protestant Sweden and England were holdouts against the "Popish" calendar. In 1752 the elegant Lord Chesterfield persuaded Parliament to give in to Gregory. "It was not . . . very honorable to England to remain in gross and unavowed error," he said, "especially in such company [as Russia ]."*But there was feverish agitation against the innovation. Lord Parker, son of the astronomer who had helped Chesterfield draw up his bill, was harassed everywhere he went by the cry: "Give us back the eleven days we have been robbed of!" But somehow, the British resigned themselves to the loss, scarcely miss their eleven...
Unwashed Democracy. Strong's mind was not brilliant. He wrote bigoted gibes at almost every racial group, but with muscular directness he chronicled the feverish, unpredictable growth of New York. He reported political meetings, flicking a patrician's flinty adjective at the "unwashed democracy." He graphically described the famous crimes of his day, the publicity feats of P. T. Barnum. the burning of New York's Crystal Palace, the laying of the Atlantic Cable...
While they were in the lines and exposed to Korea's vivax-carrying mosquitoes, the troops got chloroquine (after the first few, disorganized weeks). It worked fine as long as they took it regularly. Even though they were bitten, the men had few feverish attacks. But they still had malaria. When they started home, the medics went to work on them aboard troop-laden transports. This time their weapon was primaquine, developed in the laboratories of Columbia University. These returned soldiers are being checked for relapses. There have been few, according to reports available now (but still incomplete...