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Adjusting his quarter-inch spectacles and bending his good right eye toward a 29-page manuscript that had been nearly a year a-brewing, Dr. Howard Dixon Mclntyre, 41, Cincinnati neurologist, announced to the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine last week his observance of an entirely new type of encephalitis (sleeping sickness) which is currently epidemic in the Middle West. The new encephalitis, he reported, refused to fit into any of the categories of the disease already known, exhibited startling phases which he advised should force medical men to intensify their research into a disease about whose cause they know nothing...
...Mclntyre's paper followed a week of accidental publicity for the disease. A few days earlier Thelma Johnston, 2, had died in convulsions at General Hospital only four hours after becoming ill. Deputy Coroner James N. Patterson pronounced death due to a "strange form of encephalitis." Eight hours before the paper was read, Jule Heard, four-month-old Negress, was rushed to the hospital dead and Earl Costello, 26-year-old Negro, was rushed there dying of an unknown malady which physicians were led to believe was the new encephalitis...
Ending his report with a plea that physicians watch for and study the new disease and a promise that publication of his paper would follow, Dr. Mclntyre added a cheering word for the general public. "There is no use worrying about this thing. In view of our present knowledge it would be just as sensible to worry about being hit by lightning...
...know that O. O. Mclntyre's first names are Oscar Odd? . . And that Ernest Hemingway's forthcoming book is called Death in the Afternoon? . . . And that over the stage door of any theatre owned or leased by Earl Carroll, it says in large letters: Through These Portals Pass the Most Beautiful Girls in the World...
Earl Carroll's Vanities (Music & lyrics by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler; dialog by Jack McGowan). "Perhaps I'm a doddering old softie," 0. 0. Mclntyre admits in a preface to the Vanities program, "but in these blizzardy days of a world in chaos it seems heartening that to Earl Carroll nothing is ever lost, that there is no such thing as defeat and that life itself can be a perpetual triumph...