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...Logic Baird, 58, a canny Scot who turned an uncanny trick in 1924 when he switched on a homemade gadget (set up on a washstand in a garret over a flower shop), a moment later saw the first picture ever televised flicker on a screen two yards away; after influenza; in Bexhill, Sussex...
...scientific writer asserts that Goodpasture's development of viruses in chick embryo-which opened the way for large-scale production of vaccines against fowlpox, smallpox, yellow fever, influenza and typhus fever-is "comparable to ... Louis Pasteur's proof of the germ theory." Another has said that he "richly deserved" a Nobel prize. Last week Dr. Goodpasture, pathologist of Nashville's Vanderbilt University, got a prize-the 1946 Passano Foundation* award ($5,000 cash) for the advancement of medical research...
Died. Dr. Simon Flexner, 83, world-famed pathologist who discovered the organisms which cause bacillary dysentery, influenza, spinal meningitis and polio; in Manhattan. Appointed director of the newly formed Rockefeller Institute in 1903, he stayed on the job 32 years, nursed the Institute from a scientific fledgling to an organization of worldwide scope and importance...
...there was no gaiety inside the White House. Mrs. Truman kept to her rooms most of the week, with a heavy cold. Daughter Mary Margaret kept to her bed, with influenza and a severe gastrointestinal upset. The President kept to his desk, with severe international complications...
...Even long-neutral Sweden was affected by the season's warlike stirrings, but announced last week that it would have to postpone its scheduled spring maneuvers; Sweden's army was temporarily incapacitated by influenza...