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...fortnight Rugg book burnings began to blaze afresh in the smalltown, American Legion belt. In rapid succession the school boards of Mountain Lakes and Wayne Township, N. J. banished Rugg texts that had been used by their pupils nearly ten years. Explained Wayne Township's Board Member Ronald Gall: "In my opinion, the books are un-American but not anti-American...
...rise of New York's Thomas E. Dewey. Winks went around: "He looks good now, but wait till the experts work out on him." Last week two experts got to work on young Mr. Dewey. In the New Yorker, mordant Wolcott Gibbs, who believes in mixing plenty of gall with his ink, profiled Mr. Dewey enthusiastically in an article that read like a long, catlike scratch. Mr. Gibbs on Mr. Dewey...
Year ago, the doctors discovered that a young nurse in the hospital was a carrier. Sulfanilamide and other standard drugs did no good; they tried giving her iodophthalein, a dye used to show up the gall bladder in X-ray pictures. Next day the germs had vanished. They have not been heard from since...
Best-known method for curing typhoid carriers is cholecystectomy, or removal of the gall bladder, chief breeding ground for the bacilli. But such drastic operations are sometimes unsuccessful...
...Raker Act." The citizens' seven previous refusals, said he, were "based in some measure upon misinformation." Instead of a paltry $2,300,000, "the city would double its income" by selling the power itself. But in San Francisco the decision caused a crisis. Mayor Rossi, his gall bladder and budget both upset, from his sickbed talked of canceling pay raises for city employes, increasing the tax rate 28?. Citizeness Henrietta Wright, a publicity-shy lawyers' stenographer, sued P. G. & E. on behalf of the city for $75,000,000-about what P. G. & E. has grossed from Hetch...