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Some ten years ago, a young couple in Chicago sold their car, emptied their bank account, and took over a half-dead FM station that had $30,000 in debts and maybe six or seven pap-happy listeners. Changing its call letters to WFMT, they began to play interesting music and talk about things that a child of 3½ probably could not understand. It was risky and somewhat revolutionary, and Bernard and Rita Jacobs thought for a while that they were failing...
...Decent Reticence. Since 1875, when a group of his farsighted neighbors bought up the small Vevey factory in which Henri Nestlé had been producing milk pap for babies, Nestlé has consistently been characterized by a rare combination of imaginative salesmanship and financial caution. With uninhibited confidence, Nestlé has made a success of peddling canned milk in dairy-rich Denmark and instant coffee in Brazil. Most of the company's earnings are poured back into expansion: its 70,000 shareholders, many of them Swiss farmers, get only a 1.2% annual dividend and equally meager information on Nestl...
Bacterial pneumonia, once a major killer, is now largely controlled by sulfa drugs and antibiotics. Viral pneumonia is another matter. Believed to be caused by many kinds of viruses, and called primary atypical pneumonia (PAP) by doctors, the disease presents an uncomfortable array of symptoms. The patient usually does not get suddenly ill; he gradually gets coldlike symptoms, distressing headaches, rising temperature, chills, and a severe cough. The sickness may last weeks, though it rarely kills...
Chasing a Bug. For years, researchers have been trying to isolate and assess the role of PAP viruses. In 1944, Harvard Virologist Monroe Eaton found in the sputum of some pneumonia patients an agent that caused PAP. So far, researchers have not been able to prove for sure that "Eaton Agent" is a virus. It goes through fine filters and thus seems to fall in the sub-bacterial size-range of the viruses. Like some other viruses, it can be grown in chick embryos and hamsters. Using new fluorescent techniques, researchers have traced the antibodies that are formed to fight...
...Marine recruits at Parris Island. S.C., flooded into the local Navy dispensary displaying pneumonia symptoms. Since the recruits represented an easily controllable population for the purposes of study, Navy doctors, headed by Captain James R. Kingston and assisted by the National Institutes of Health, went to work. They separated PAP patients from recruits suffering from other respiratory diseases, took sputum for culturing and blood samples for testing. They found that 68% of the recruits displaying PAP symptoms were infected with Eaton Agent. And they found that Declomycin "significantly reduced the duration of fever, rales, cough, malaise and fatigue...