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...A.M.A. Journal, that they also might have failed to solve the mystery, but they happened to see something moving on the patient's skin. It proved to be an eight-legged critter, little more than one-fiftieth of an inch long, later identified as the northern fowl mite (Ornithonyssus sylviarum). The black dots Mrs. T. had noticed proved to be the mites' droppings. Evidently the mites caused the itching, and the fact that Mrs. T.'s husband, a clothing salesman, was not affected, though he slept in the same room, was probably a matter of individual sensitivity...
...semifinal rout by Fellow Aussie Ashley Cooper, the men's final was an Australian crawl again for the third straight year, with Cooper beating Teammate Neale Fraser after a fierce 24-game fourth set. U.S. women did better: California's pesky 5-ft. 1-in. mite, Mimi Arnold, 19, startled the crowd with a savage 10-8, 6-3 mauling of Britain's ballyhooed six-footer, Christine Truman. Then Arnold lost in the quarterfinals to Mme. Suzi Kormoczi, 33, the shrewd Hungarian typist. That pinned remaining U.S. hopes, as usual these days, on poker-faced Althea Gibson...
AMERICAN MOTORS, already well along comeback trail, will pick up more speed with Government contract for its light (1,500 Ibs.), jeeplike Mighty Mite, which can hit 60 m.p.h. with aluminum, V4, air-cooled engine. First order: $5.6 million for tooling and 250 vehicles for Marine Corps, but Detroit says much bigger orders are coming...
...City Music Hall, opened up dancing classes at Worthington's Town Hall. George, 39, was a publisher, ran a little printing firm that turned out school yearbooks and similar publications. He liked to drive around in a $10,000 Continental Mark II, and was known to be a mite expansive about his moneymaking prowess; he also gave the impression that he was related to former U.S. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. He had a little printing press in his basement, and a friendly real-estate man who saw it once joshed: "You could make a bundle of ten-dollar bills...
...will be interesting to see, in later volumes, how much credit Roosevelt's New Deal gets for saving the nation, and how the villainous businessman finally acquired enough vision to contribute his mite to an expanding economy. In the meantime many a reader will wish that Author Schlesinger would allow a remarkable and memorable American to be judged on his own great merits and great faults, without loading the historian's dice in his favor...