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...A.M.A. Journal, that they also might have failed to solve the mystery, but they happened to see something moving on the patient's skin. It proved to be an eight-legged critter, little more than one-fiftieth of an inch long, later identified as the northern fowl mite (Ornithonyssus sylviarum). The black dots Mrs. T. had noticed proved to be the mites' droppings. Evidently the mites caused the itching, and the fact that Mrs. T.'s husband, a clothing salesman, was not affected, though he slept in the same room, was probably a matter of individual sensitivity...
...lightweight, 2,000-lb.-thrust J83 engine, also a Fairchild development. Fortnight ago the J83 passed its Air Force qualification test, and now the Goose is ready for a production contract that the Air Force will only say will amount to "many millions." Nor is the Goose the only fowl in Fairchild's nest...
...infrequently condescends to wither mankind through his spectacles from one of the marble tables." His love of bad puns was notorious ("A good one is not worth listening to"). Said a friend: "I recollect him now, wiping his brow after trying vainly to help the leg of a tough fowl, and saying he was 'heaving a thigh...
...Merchant of Venice (Caedmon, 2 LPs), is a rousing production containing Michael Redgrave's controversial Shylock, who demands his pound of flesh from Antonio in a thick and rather phony Jewish accent that is neither gefüllte fish nor fowl...
From this prose Noah's ark aglut with fish and fowl, an olive branch of insight occasionally extends. The Old Man has a grave regional piety towards nature, and the Boy glows with a spontaneous, open-eyed wonder before it. The cycle of the seasons takes on a sensuous reality never suggested by the city-dweller's falling calendar leaves. But Author Ruark's major trouble is suggested by his title. Page after page of The Old Man and the Boy is mock-Hemingway in style and he-boy sentiments. Indeed, if Ernest Hemingway did not exist...