Word: jost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky plumber's wife last week displaced a Wisconsin foster child as heroine of the nation's sneezing news. Daisy Jost, 15, of Chippewa Falls, Wis. had ceased sneezing when Mrs. Lonnie Dickson, 48, of Princeton, Ky., commenced to sneeze. Daisy held the time record (nine days); Mrs. Dickson set the frequency record (25 times a minute). While the excitement lasted friends advised all sorts of remedies-pressing the upper lip, cold baths, blowing cigaret smoke through the nose. Doctors cured both sneezers by giving them sedatives (which allowed them to sleep and gain strength) and letting...
...Daisy Jost's case the Mayo Clinic, urged by Daisy's physician, Dr. William Conrad George Henske, went to the rescue. Guided by Bacteriologist Edward Carl Rosenow, a zealot in finding new germs and new forms of old germs, the Mayo specialists infected rabbits with smears taken from Daisy Jost's throat & nose. Declared Dr. Rosenow: "This is the first time that tests in cases of sneezing have been conducted in this world, to my knowledge. We are hoping that we will find a streptococcus that causes sneezing, so that a serum may be devised to combat...
...Bayreuth Wagner Festival, conducted by Karl Elmendorff (Columbia, $36)?The production to which the world's music wisest flocked last summer, faithfully given as Arturo Toscanini prepared it. More thrilling than any recent flesh & blood performance in the U. S. is the "Venus" of Contralto Ruth Jost-Arden, the ''Wolfram" of Baritone Herbert Janssen. flawlessly reproduced...