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...fever-are usually transmitted to children by their elders, said Dr. Fairfax Hall of New Rochelle, N. Y. He viewed with alarm the fact that 18,000 U. S. schoolteachers have tuberculosis, that no laws prevent them from spreading their infections in classrooms. Dr. Hall urged the Academy to plump for examinations of teachers, to educate parents to insist on health cards for domestics. In wealthy Westchester County, N. Y., where 25% of high-school children had a positive tuberculin reaction, an organized campaign of adult health examinations, at the low price of $7 a person a year, .was started...
...discuss politics had to get along with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. This week, after three years of one of the most phenomenally successful careers in U. S. journalism, Dorothy Thompson knocked off work for a month and hopped a plane for California, turning down all proffered honors and showed a plump pair of legs to the millions of women who think of her as something between a Cassandra and a Joan...
...When plump, ruddy Julius Peter Heil, self-made industrialist, became Governor of Wisconsin last January, his backers had their fingers crossed. Each time unschooled Julius Heil opened his mouth, they held their breaths. Having no such misgivings himself, Governor Heil opened his mouth almost at once to denounce one of Wisconsin's prides, its State University...
...night before in Winnipeg, Governor Stassen had addressed 400 guests at a civic reception in his honor. Subject: good will. That morning he had addressed 135 members of the Winnipeg Board of Trade at a good-will breakfast. The Governor's plump wife had spent several hours dressing for her presentation to the King and Queen. The Governor had donned his cutaway and striped trousers, plastered down his bright red hair...
Once the visitors were ashore, the correspondents rushed around ferreting out interesting facts about their private arrangements. Plump, ebullient Dixie Tighe of the Philadelphia Record, and New York Post plunged even deeper into the Royal private life, cabled her papers that at Quebec's Citadel the King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss...