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What can be done? UNRRA, the American Red Cross, Europe's handful of doctors have failed to stop the white plague's spread. This month one of Europe's smallest countries, Denmark, will launch a brave try. Its weapon: BCG vaccine (TIME, Nov. 11), which in Danish tests has reduced the T.B. rate to one-seventh that among the unvaccinated. In the next few weeks Danish Red Cross teams, each consisting of a doctor, two nurses and a secretary, will go to Warsaw, Budapest and Rendsburg, Germany, to begin vaccinating their populations, children first...
Following practice sessions from the coach's launch, Bolles watches his charges for evidence of number one boat ability. Since some men can go through the motions beautifully but lack the power to make a shell go, Bolles has to resort to a trial-and-error method to pick his leading crew. "What counts in crew," he says, "Is how far you can push the boat, not how many strokes you can make...
Thirty of the nation's leading circulation specialists and a group of industrial bigwigs met in Cleveland last week to launch the American Foundation for High Blood Pressure. Prime mover of the Foundation is Dr. Irvine Page of the Cleveland Clinic...
While less hardy College athletes passed yesterday afternoon at subterranean squash or second-story ping-pong, seven Crimson crews scoffed at the cold river wind and the occasional snow flurries to launch their first outdoor practice of the '47 season in the Charles...
...hitting the river just about on a par with other years," said Coach Tom Bolles as he clambered aboard the launch which would carry him to where he could get a closer view of his charges. "But it's only practice until after spring vacation. As far as I'm concerned, they're all just candidates for the Varsity right...