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...Good Lord. When he first took up boxing-and spent for his weekly lessons the 25? his married sister Emmarell gave him for scrubbing her floors every Saturday-Joe's churchgoing mother threw up her hands in horror. "I jes' gave him up in the hands of the good Lord," she says...
...paint-pot parade is the best Technicolor job out of Hollywood to date. But paint is no substitute for dramatic action. Out of the tiresome rhetoric, the pretty posturing of Blood and Sand only the bullfight scenes stand out. One of them is magnificent: a little Mexican boy named Jesús Angel, clad in a breech clout, armed solely with a white horse blanket, hazing a big black bull around a practice plaza de toros in the moonlight...
...House, chanting hoarsely: "The vaccine is ours!'' They were advanced tuberculosis patients, who had escaped from Buenos Aires' four big contagious hospitals. A few-dozen lepers had joined them. What they cried for was a new tuberculosis "cure," developed by a 40-year-old scientist named Jesús Pueyo Rodriguez...
...doctor, Jesús Pueyo claims to have cured almost 200 patients with his vaccine, given in courses of 20 injections under the guidance of Dr. Francisco Romero. He will not reveal the formula of his vaccine, says it is made by neutralizing tubercle bacilli from human sputum with a special chemical. The vaccine, he holds, stimulates production of tuberculosis antibodies. Last fall the newspaper La Critica took up Pueyo's cause. The National Department of Hygiene promised to experiment if he revealed his formula. He refused. A newspaper row started. Then patients took matters into their own hands...
Rochester, it seems, had been in Boston before. "Where's Scollay Square? You know why they put the Old Howard there, don't you?" he queried. "They tell me 'cause its jes' half-way between Harvard Square and the Navy Yard...