Word: minn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal disease detectives joined state and local health officials in the search for the cause of a mysterious epidemic of pneumonia (75 cases so far) that has swept through Austin. Minn. (pop. 23,000) and lapped at nearby Rochester (pop. 30,000), home of the famed Mayo Clinic. The pneumonia has been unusually severe: delirious patients have had to be restrained; three elderly victims, previously in poor health, have died. So far, none of the microbes known to cause pneumonia have been identified...
Russian-born George Zlatovski arrived in the U.S. with his parents in 1922 at the age of twelve, settled in Duluth, Minn., earned the nickname "Trotsky" in high school because of his spouting off in defense of Red Russia. He studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he was a big pro-Communist on the campus, and he fought with the Red-sponsored Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish civil war. In 1943 he joined the U.S. Army, rose from private to lieutenant, in 1945-47 was assigned to U.S. intelligence work in Austria...
TIME'S May 20 Cinema section gives an erroneous box-office report (also published in Variety) for The Spirit of St. Louis in Little Falls, Minn., Charles A. Lindbergh's home town. The film played in two theaters, not one, grossing a near record of $1,380 at the Falls and $239.20 at a smaller theater for a total $1,619.20 in one week. Latest Little Falls population census is 6,717. So Lindy is still a big hero in his home town...
...Warner Bros., producer of The Spirit of St. Louis (TIME, March 4), had reason to wonder if the epic's hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, is still a hero in his own home town. After big hoopla in Little Falls, Minn. (pop. 6,717), Spirit, showing in two local theaters, grossed a miserable $7.50 in one house on the second night of its run. Warner Bros.' take for the evening...
Oberlin, Swarthmore, Carleton (Minn.), and Reed (Ore.) rank as the best co-educational colleges. The Tribune listed Barnard, Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley, and Smith behind Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe as the leading women's colleges...