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From Mary's 104° fever and other signs, Field Physician Garfield Fred Burkhardt suspected meningitis, probably tuberculous-a disease that was invariably fatal until twelve years ago. He plunged a needle into her back and tapped the spinal fluid. Its high cell content buttressed his fears. While Navajo Nelson Bennett worked the field radio to alert the Navajo medical center at Fort Defiance for an emergency admission, Dr. Burkhardt gave Mary Grey-Eyes a massive penicillin injection. This would combat the infection if pneumococci, rather than tubercle bacilli, were the cause...
Died. Abram Garfield, 85, patriarchitect of Cleveland, son of U.S. President James Abram Garfield; in Cleveland. As a boy, Garfield lived briefly in the White House during his father's short presidency...
Early Years. Son of gregarious Ohio Republican James Garfield Stewart, sometime mayor of Cincinnati (1938-47), now a state supreme court judge. After prepping at Hotchkiss. young Potter wavered between law and journalism at Yale, was chairman of the Yale Daily News, tried a summertime stint as a cub reporter on the Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star before finally deciding on law. Graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa (1937)) ne spent a year studying international law at Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship (awarded to four U.S. college graduates a year), then graduated from Yale Law School...
...African saying. Last week, in the dead of Southern Rhodesia's cool, dry winter, the skies opened suddenly, and hail and rain swept across the rolling hills of light brown grass. That day citizens of Southern Rhodesia, going to the polls from the Limpopo to the Zambezi, voted Garfield Todd, their Prime Minister for five years until last February, into political oblivion. His United Rhodesia Party, upholding the zeal for racial "partnership" that earned him the name of "Kaffir lover" and cost him his office, failed to win a single seat...
When ex-Missionary Garfield Todd was dumped two months ago as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (TIME, Feb. 24), the move was based on a hardheaded political calculation. Todd's own party, the Southern Rhodesian division of the United Federal Party, decided that Todd's vigorous advocacy of racial "partnership" between blacks and whites in the Central Africa Federation (Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland) had alienated white voters...