Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the new knowledge is negative, but it is on the side of more calm and less panic. This week it became known that great numbers of cases diagnosed and reported as polio may not be polio at all. Three researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine reported that they had isolated a virus which causes a disease like non-paralytic polio. They found it last year in so-called polio victims in several cities. Still unnamed, the disease apparently does no lasting harm...
...marked discoloration of the tongue; most U.S. doctors have blamed the disease rather than the cure. Following up the work of doctors in Britain and India, Dr. Samuel A. Wolfson of Los Angeles came to a different conclusion: he showed that penicillin itself causes blackening of the tongue, may even cause the growth of black "hairs" up to half an inch long. Fortunately, the disorder clears up automatically after penicillin treatment is ended...
Last week, 8,000 Chicagoans crowded under Ravinia's huge tent awning (once a B-29 hangar; Ravinia's wooden pavilion burned down last May) to hear the result of all the cooking and testing...
...story was familiar, at least in outline: Librettist Eric (Let's Make an Opera) Crozier had freely adapted his comic libretto from Guy de Maupassant's Le Rosier de Madame Husson. A bumpkin is chosen King of the May because in the village there is no girl virtuous enough to be Queen, eventually winds up on a roaring toot. To this, Composer Britten hitched a witty, somewhat Peter and the Wolf-ish score, in which each instrument seemed to portray (or mock) a character on stage. There were other Britten trademarks: well-fitting songs and exciting ensembles. Even...
...valued at "$50,000,000, maybe even $100,000,000." Elizabeth herself makes only $1,000 a week, which is raisins to the plums she should soon be getting. Next year her salary goes up to $1,500 under the present contract, which has three years to run. Bonuses may add to her take...