Word: mallon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Typhoid Mary" Mallon, reputed to have infected 57 people, three of whom died. She was carted off in 1907 by court order to New York City's North Brother Island, held there off & on until she died of a stroke...
Detroit's carrier can probably be cleansed of her infection, said Dr. Barone, by removal of the gall bladder, where typhoid germs lurk. (Another possibility: a drug called iodophthalein.) New York City's celebrated carrier, "Typhoid Mary" (Mary Mallon), stubbornly refused to have her gall bladder purged, spent most of her last 30 years either locked up or eluding police to take jobs as a cook. She infected some 51 people, and died in 1938 -of a stroke...
...used to finding Reds under the bed, but this was different. Last week Hearstling Columnist Paul Mallon took an off-duty peek beneath the crazy-quilt of modern art-and jumped. Said he, in an open letter to the boss (which was duly featured, without Mr. Hearst's reply, in the boss's papers...
...Sirs: Why has Paul Mallon been singled out as the only columnist whose total number of papers and circulation you don't print (TIME, March 27) ? . . . Surely, the statistics were as readily available from his syndicate as from those of the other columnists. Could this be a typical bit of "Time-ery" injected into the "news" columns of TIME...
...Hardly. It was injected by Mallon's Hearst bosses, who withheld the figures...