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...long an incubation period); smallpox (too many people are vaccinated); tuberculosis (too hard to spread and it kills too slowly); bubonic plague (among other reasons, the flea which carries it is too perishable). Gas gangrene bacteria are ruled out: too hard to get them into wounds (Rosebury & Kabat muse that they might be put in the fuses of fragmentation bombs...
...Clio, Muse of History, is just a girl who can't say no. She has succumbed for the seventh time in six years to the same man-Upton Sinclair. But in their latest encounter, Volume VII of his novel-history of the 20th Century, 67-year-old Sinclair's powers seem to be failing...
...dualistic Dryden and his muse...
...That thud you just heard was John Harvard toppling out of his chair," declared Sidney R. Packard, visiting lecturer in History, as Clio, the smiling muse of his calling, gave the old boy a nudge to make way for two more of her sinister...
...George Gershwin became a steady customer; so did his buddy, Oscar Levant. Soon many able musicians (Jesse Crawford, Benny Goodman, Vernon Duke) were juggling rhythms and harmonies into endless combinations. Long-haired music schools eschewed Schillinger and all his works: their students had plenty of time to court the muse...