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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Study was founded, on a special University fund in 1938, it moved into its present home. The building, which once contained athletic facilities, was remodeled, and offices replaced the squash courts. A swimming pool in the rear is now used by a drama group for rehearsals, with the Study's permission...
...disease unknown in the U.S. until just before the war. Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani. Once diagnosed, the disease is easily treated with daily injections of ethylstibamine, an,antimony compound. Noles went home after six weeks, pronounced cured...
Died. Luther ("Bill," "Bojangles") Robinson, 71, longtime master of old-school (non-acrobatic) tap dancers; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely...
...there is a difference between men and women, and it moves painfully along on this material until the end. There is a difference, though a small one, admits Katherine Hepburn. "Vive la difference," shouts Spencer Tracy as he closes the curtains on the old four poster. Then everybody goes home...
...owners driving home for Christmas can meet riders going to the same place though the Travel Introduction Bureau opening today in Phillips Brooks House...