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...children, the new Army-tested influenza vaccine (TIME, Oct. 7) seems to be almost as bad as flu itself. Pediatricians have found that, for reasons still unexplained, children react to the vaccine much more violently than adults; as little as one-tenth of the normal adult dose (one cc) may produce high fever, chills, vomiting. Lederle Laboratories, a manufacturer of the vaccine, now advises against it for tots under two. Verdict of most leading pediatricians: for adults only...
They offered the University of Nevada 27 four-year scholarships, each paying $1,000 a year. By the time the plan gets rolling, it will cost the Smiths $108,000 a year, and up to one-tenth of the student body will be going to school on gambling profits. Says Harold: "There are a lot of good minds hidden away in the little mining camps and ranches. Given a chance and the right education, some of them may do a lot for the state some day. You don't know what college means unless you miss it yourself...
Wanted: Beds. When Washington asked a put-up-or-shut-up question (''What is Alaska doing about it?"), Albrecht had a stopper: none-too-wealthy Alaska had voted $250,000, about one-tenth of its annual budget, for an anti-T.B. campaign; its able Governor, Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening) had declared a state of emergency. Now would Congress meet the request of the Office of Indian Affairs for $2,775,000 to start building a 200-bed sanatorium...
Driver Bill Linney, his two bobbers and his brakeman, could have run it with their eyes closed. His brakeman's carefully practiced pushoff (25% of a bobsled race) gave Linney's team a valuable one-tenth second. They rounded hairpin Shady Corner at approximately 57 m.p.h., zoomed around Zig Zag's treacherous S curve. (A General Electric eye timer clocked them doing 118 m.p.h. at the finish line.) Linney's final four-heat time-4:25.96-was 1.66 seconds short of the course record he set two weeks ago, but an impressive five seconds ahead...
...seemed ridiculous for "Happy" French, a photographer, to keep on working for Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He had found a way to make three times the money in one-tenth the time. Anyway, he was tired of being chased out on all sorts of assignments by "them stupid bastards on the city desk." Said he: "I should be shooting eight-foot hollyhocks." So he walked into Managing Editor Ed Stone's office and quit. P-I staffers threw a party for him, and the management gave him a wrist watch. Even "them stupid bastards" were sorry...