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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HORIZONTAL-Duff Gilfond-Vanguard ($2.50). Onetime Reporter Gil-fond tells with harrowing gaiety of a ten-year fight against encephalitis lethargica ("sleeping sickness"), which in her case took the form of a constant headache so painful that she had to lie down almost all the time. Her descriptions of variously officious, honest, cruel, experimental or decent specialists and the hospital experiences she had in their charge manage to be funny in spite of everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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