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PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE, by Martha Gellhorn. The three stories are set in the weary world of Continental society, where people manipulate friends as well as cards to slake their boredom. In each story there is a loser, and in the collapse of his flimsy designs is the germ of a less frantic, more satisfying life...
Letkiss has already been blasted from the pulpit in Munich, and because of an incipient Asian-flu epidemic in Europe, has been denounced by doctors as a germ-spreading menace. Even the amateur sociologists have weighed in. "Now the solitary dancer, surrendering entirely to the beat, communes not only with the partner but with the entire group of revelers," says Dance Instructor Gertrude Schmidt. "Letkiss culminates in the kind of intimacy that previously would have shocked everyone...
...Your cough-by-cough description of the royal (presidential) family's colds was so realistic that I picked up a germ from reading...
...reason the joke caught on so well, I think, was that it contained a fatal germ of truth. Supporters flocked to the cause with an intuitive enthusiasm--but they were flocking to several different causes...
...John Knox is convinced that if as much money were put into syphilis research as went into research on polio - which did not kill or cripple as many people - a vaccine could be found in a few years. But the spirochete of human syphilis is a maddening germ that refuses to grow in the test tube or in most animals. And syphilis research is under way at only four or five U.S. medical centers...