Word: influenza
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...Also working under difficulties last week was another United Feature columnist, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. While her attack of influenza was putting her on the front page, My Day continued to appear as usual in the feature section. On the clay General Johnson's truncated column went to United's clients, Columnist Roosevelt reported: "Everyone should be a little ill now and then in order to be reminded how very kind and thoughtful the rest of the world is to those of us who fall by the wayside. . . . I have just been asked what flavor I would like...
...Treasury William Hartman Woodin out of the Cabinet, later killed him. Last week Death struck its first square blow at the Roosevelt Cabinet when Secretary of War George Henry Dern died after a long illness in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. He had suffered a severe attack of influenza in Charleston, S. C. last spring. In July, weakened by kidney trouble, the 64-year-old Secretary took to his bed never to rise again...
Just as rats make excellent laboratory animals for nutrition research, mice for cancer and monkeys for poliomyelitis, so ferrets are invaluable to influenza investigators. Ferret reactions were the basis of Harvard's Dr. William Firth Wells's demonstration last month that ultraviolet radiation kills the unknown germ or virus which causes that disease (TIME, Aug. 3). But many doctors think it probable that some infectious agencies change their form in different environments. The question remained: While human influenza could be communicated to ferrets, could ferret influenza be communicated...
Last week an answer reached the U. S. from Britain. Dr. C. H. Stuart-Harris of London's National Institute for Medical Research was scrutinizing some ferrets sick with influenza. One of the little animals sneezed right in the doctor's face. Forty-five hours later he was in bed with influenza. Last week Dr. Stuart-Harris was up & about again, able to proceed on the assumption that ferret influenza is the same as the malady...
Died. Wilfred Washington Fry, 61, onetime Y.M.C.A. executive, head of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., potent Philadelphia advertising agency; of complications following influenza; in Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College Hospital which last year elected him its president. A Baptist and ardent Dry, he accepted no post-Repeal liquor accounts, dropped Canada Dry when that firm began to sell gin, whiskey, beer (TIME, Sept...