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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year). In fact, these boil down to the knowledge that there are at least three types of polio virus (and possibly several strains of each type), and that the virus is usually transmitted by some sort of contact with other infected persons-most often in the home...
After that the pace picked up a little, but not until they were one-quarter mile from home did they start to run in earnest. Richards brought Ridge Wood to the wire in front by three lengths. In spite of spectators' boos and an inquiry by track stewards (who found that no rule had been infringed) Ridge Wood's owner picked up $4,648 in prize money. Time: 5:13 4/5. World's record for the distance...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 10,884) prides himself on being a "Southern liberal." Editor James A. Wechsler of the New York Post Home News (circ. 374,706) is just as proud of being a "Northern liberal." Last week Editors Carter and Wechsler, onetime staffers on Manhattan's late, hyperthyroid PM, were sniping at each other in a lively bushwhacking fight...
...Jane Greer projects the sort of high-frequency sex that can shatter a glass eye at 50 paces, but she seems to be more interested in home and family than in becoming a big star. Audrey Totter, on the other hand, is burning with ambition, and has some acting talent...
After an almost idle year under contract to Universal, Elizabeth switched to M-G-M where she played opposite Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home. National Velvet followed a year later. For three years of "awkward age" she had only minor roles, went to the studio school, rode horses, and played with her turtles, fish, mice, rabbits, cats, dogs, ducks and chipmunks. She wrote a little story about one of the chipmunks, called Nibbles and Me, which was published under her name but shows the toothmarks of some careful editorial nibbling...