Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposite. In Boston's ancient, creaky Mechanics' Building last week, one of the most vigorous of the dissenters appeared before a panel meeting of the American College of Physicians. Introduced as a prime "rebel" against the accepted theories, the University of California's Dr. William J. Kerr promptly retorted that he was proud of the title. Then he proceeded to justify it with a slashing attack on the virus theorists...
...Colds are afflictions rather than infections," said ruddy, husky Dr. Kerr flatly. "I do not believe .that a great majority of the diseases of the upper respiratory tract are virus infections like flu or grippe-most of them are 'just colds...
...evidence that "you don't catch a cold-you have it," Dr. Kerr told how he and fellow workers at the University of California tried to infect subjects with another person's cold. People without colds would play cards or work jigsaw puzzles for hours next to a sneezing, sniffling victim; others drank from glasses smeared with a cold sufferer's sputum. Even so, said Dr. Kerr, his healthy subjects failed to catch colds...
Final announcement of the cast was made yesterday. John G. Kerr '52 will play Figaro, the valet in love with a lady-in-waiting (Ailene Presman...
...President's good friends and Democrats in the Southwest, including Oklahoma's oil-rich Senator Robert Kerr and Texas' Speaker Sam Rayburn, spoke up for free enterprise. The Kerr bill would specifically remove any right of the Federal Power Commission to regulate the price charged for natural gas going into interstate pipelines. And it wouldn't cost consumers "a single red penny," promised Rayburn...