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...hospital corridors, no nook or cranny has escaped attention from sanitation experts. Faulty air-conditioning systems, surgical masks, dirty mopheads and bedside water carafes have been implicated as germ carriers. In a speech to last week's American Public Health Association conference in San Francisco, Dr. Howard E. Lind of Brookline, Mass. proposed another target for bug hunters: the pillows on patients' beds...
...Brookline's Brooks Hospital, Dr. Lind examined feathers in pillow stuffings that had been "sanitized" (washed, heat-treated and chemically disinfected) to Government standards. He found huge amounts of residual bacteria: up to 13 million organisms per gram. Most are probably harmless to humans, but at least three diseases-including psittacosis, or "parrot fever"-can be transmitted to humans from fowl; all three can be spread by feathers from infected birds. Dr. Lind found more than germs inside old hospital pillows. Items that turned up amid the feathers: stones, corn, glass, metal strips, nails, a broken thermometer, false teeth...
...just as cute, lovable and revolting as anybody else. The expertly tibbled story line about a man-and-wife comedy team has the requisite cynical children, the coy, sex-crazed housekeeper, and the jolly Broadway agent, naturally called Happy. In last week's first installment, Peter Lind Hayes, as the TV comic who cracked up over the air because his family insists on living in the strange, frightening suburbs, and Mary Healy as his wife, whose gay indifference to his suffering singled her out as a latent sadist, were charming and civilized performers. But the show is brainless...
Peter Loves Mary (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). First of a new series in which Peter " Lind Hayes and Mary Healy more or less play themselves-a young married couple who divide their time between show-business careers and family life...
...Special Tonight Series (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A kiddie-land department store Santa believes he is the real Claus. Miracle on 34th Street, a rewrite of the 1947 movie, stars Ed Wynn, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy...