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...well. The pair took to copying little-known Millets, then to producing original works of art by Millet. To do this they needed only the skill of Artist Cazot, a chemical analysis of the original Millet paints, and a supply of old canvases, which they bought at the Parisian flea market for two or three francs apiece. When the market for Millets ran low. they produced Monets, Sisleys, Pissarros. The forging of Millet paintings was greatly helped by the fact that old Jean null Millet was in the habit of signing his canvases with a copper stencil...
...transmitters of Plague No. 1 are the rat-flea and the human louse. These greedy insects suck in the virus of typhus from the blood of their hosts, pass the disease on at their next feeding point. The viruses of rat and human typhus are slightly different. But when either gets into a human being's blood they cause precisely the same symptoms...
When an attack of typhus is mild it probably is due to the bite of a rat-flea. In human blood rat-typhus virus may be transformed, by ways which bacteriologists have not discovered, into human-typhus virus which in turn is transmitted by lice in a much more virulent form. Professor Zinsser two years ago invented a vaccine to prevent human typhus (TIME, March 13, 1933). Before that, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service invented a vaccine to protect humans against rat typhus (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). Though the mortality rate of typhus under...
...Jeeter Lester, the ragged, flea-bitten patriarch of Tobacco Road, is beginning to take on some of the qualities of Hamlet. A great number of actors want to play it, and, by last week, three already...
Time came and time went, but Cerberus remainded. At length the owner arrived to claim the dog. Add one item to the H.A.A.'s budget--fifty cents for a can of Roach's flea-powder...