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Ernie himself was never happy at a desk. Despite his shyness, something drove him on to move around, meet new people, see new things, get his facts firsthand. For a while he wrote a successful column of aviation chitchat. In 1935, after a severe attack of influenza, he went to the Southwest to recuperate and wrote a dozen travel pieces about his trip. "They had a sort of Mark Twain quality and they knocked my eyes right out," remembers Scripps-Howard's Editor in Chief George B. ("Deac") Parker. When Ernie proposed that he become a permanent roving reporter...
Anatol A. Smorodintzev, Russian discoverer of methods of combatting encephalitis and influenza, will give the annual Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine at the Harvard Medical School this afternoon. The subject of the lecture, which will be given in Amphitheater D at 5 o'clock, is "New Forms of Encephalitis in the U.S.S.R...
...influenza vaccine that really works would be a medical Something-interesting but improbable. This week the improbability became cold medical fact. In the Journal of the A.M.A. an Army commission on influenza announced that it had made the vaccine by growing influenza virus in fertile hens' eggs. One of the commission's members is Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., generally considered No. 1 U.S. influenza...
...Francis has been harrying influenza since 1935 when, at the Rockefeller Institute, he first used ferrets to prove that influenza is solely a virus disease. (So far, two viruses have been identified, type A and type B.) In 1941 Dr. Francis found that many people with colds or hay fever have a substance in their noses which makes the virus harmless. He also found that, at least for a while, people who have recovered from flu have protective substances in their blood...
Influenzal meningitis (not related to influenza or epidemic meningitis) used to kill 92% to 100% of all cases. But Manhattan's Dr. Hattie Elizabeth Alexander loses only 25% of her patients. Dr. Alexander's lifesaving treatment consists of a special serum and sulfadiazine. Said she last week: "If treatment were always prompt, mortality could be brought near the zero mark...