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...ridiculously easy triumph over a not-too-potent Tufts eleven, the price paid in casualties was surprisingly high. Captain Cloo O'Donnell, the sparkplug of the game, suffered a broken rib after his dazzling runback of a Jumbo punt early in the first period, and the mightly mite will be out of action for several weeks. The team's doctor should rule on the approximate date of his return today...
Homeless veterans got a mite of help last week in their house hunting. The Civilian Production Administration slapped a priorities system on building materials, to start Jan. 15. In 1946 it hopes to funnel them into some 400,000 new homes for veterans costing $10,000 and less...
...reason why Napoleon kept his hand inside his coat so much may have been because he was scratching himself. He suffered from Sarcoptes scabiei, the barely visible mite which causes scabies-commonly known as the itch...
...also discovered a second sort, of an oval figure. . . . Comparing them with a cheese mite, which may be seen to move with the naked eye, I make the proportion of one of these small water creatures to a cheese mite to be like that of a bee to a horse...
...Army & Navy get to Japan, the more often they encounter tsutsugamushi (Japanese for "dangerous bug fever"). It is also known as scrub typhus, is related to epidemic typhus. Service doctors expect the worst infection in Formosa, Malaya, Japan itself. The disease is carried by the larva of the red mite, Trombicula akamushi, which bites only once, but perhaps fatally-the death rate is 4% to 55%, depending on the virulence of the epidemic. To teach their colleagues about this new danger, Lieuts. (j.g.) Donald S. Farner and Chris P. Katsampes discussed it in the current U.S. Naval Medical Bulletin...