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Died. Frank Jenners Wilstach, 63, censor of U. S. cinemadvertising & publicity, wit, bibliophile, author, compiler of similes, sometime business manager of DeWolf Hopper, Sothern & Marlowe. Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham; of influenza; in Manhattan. His famed Dictionary of Similes sprang out of his disgust for the phrase, "The news spread like wildfire." "Wildfire," he fumed, "is a disease of sheep. It is also a bolt of sheet lightning. I'm going to end this...
...Absurd!" says science to notions that sunspot activity brings influenza epidemics, wars, business prosperity. Prosperity undeniably reigned in 1928, the last sunspot maximum; the depression and the post-War slump were undeniably not far from sunspot minima. Carried further back, the correspondence collapses...
Washington, stormed in upon the Committee and swore that he could produce Mr. Hopson at a hat's drop. Mr. Hopson had merely gone to Bowling Green, Ky. in August, had caught intestinal influenza, had then gone to Chicago "to be with his sister." Last week Mr. Hopson, rotund and smiling, appeared before the Senators, blithely announcing that he had brought a "truckload" of papers for examination. Mr. Pecora insisted that the truckload be carted back to Manhattan to be examined in Mr. Hopson's offices...
...course will do all they can (which is little enough) to help in the present crisis. Their experimentation really will benefit the future. While in actual fact the epidemic itself, in virulence, incidence, after effects (in this form) or mortality is no more dreadful than an influenza epidemic. Yet it will rival beer as the disease that made St. Louis famous...
Still a perfectionist but not so optimistic as he has been, Author Wells says things will get worse before they get better. In 1935 and 1937 will come world-wide influenza epidemics. By 1942. gas masks, metal hats and epaulets will be weekday wear for civilians. By 1940 kidnapping will be so prevalent that no important person will be without a bodyguard. In 1938-39, the Japanese, having set up another puppet state in China, will be driven out of the interior; the brief Eastern War will ensue, from which both Japan and the U. S. will emerge national wrecks...