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Last week Andrew Sakacs died. By this time there was no doubt as to what killed him, or how he got his fatal infection. His was the first case of plague in southern California since 1936. But millions of flea-infested rodents constitute an ever-filled reservoir of the disease throughout the West and Southwest. The hopeful word from Lockwood Valley was that with the rodents already dead, the epizootic had burned itself out. Sakacs was a casualty only by rare and unhappy chance...
...reach far back to cuff an offender ("Pinero . . . turned the wine of drama into water. A miracle, a miracle!"). Three pieces are devoted to the demerits of Noel Coward, whose works are finally summed up in two words (of George Jean Nathan's): "zymotic bilge." As for the "flea minds" of Ireland who are not properly reverent to their self-exiled bard, "these critics do not injure O'Casey, but they disgrace Ireland." He feels he is in good company, for Shakespeare too seems to him to be disgraced in his homeland ("The Old Vic is only...
...Aguecheek was drunk every night. His tippling could easily have caused cirrhosis of the liver Even Sir Toby Belch, no pathologist but a fellow tosspot, suspected this: "For Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy." A cirrhotic liver is relatively bloodless...
...dingy corner behind the Hotel de Ville, where they sleep huddled together with a flea-ridden dog, a clochard and his wife were equally insulted by the notion that they are redeemable. "It may be all right for the likes of you," said the woman, "but we don't like washing. When it gets too cold here, my husband insults a gendarme and he takes us to the police station for the night. But that's all right -they don't make you wash." A famed Parisian clochard is white-bearded...
...knows yet where cosmic ray particles come from. A few may originate in rare solar "flares," but most of them come from farther space. The fastest particles pack an enormous punch, up to 1016 ev (10 million billion electron volts) of energy. To accelerate a flea to this speed, said Neher, would require all the energy released by a hydrogen bomb...