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...Jimmy Orr's Fateful Journey" [Aug. 311: you say we visited a ranch where the children were ill with pox, "but nobody paid much heed or knew what kind." Only Jimmy visited the ranch; and it was in another home, where Jimmy went to call, that they found the sick children. Jimmy remembered all this while on the train to Toronto, when he saw the spots beginning to appear. He knew he had been exposed to what is fairly common in southern Brazil, varicella (the Latin word for chicken pox...
...view of this, plus the outward appearance and the mildness of the case, many a less conscientious or less thorough doctor than our Toronto friend would have continued to think of it as chicken pox...
...hastily added that he didn't mean to be taken literally-but obviously, in some circles, he was. For as Griffin let out all the segregationist stops in the closing days of one of Georgia's bitterest, dirtiest Democratic primary campaigns, racial violence popped out like the pox: night riders prowled the state, there were shotgun incidents in Dallas, Leesburg and Dawson, and two Negro churches were burned to the ground...
...Chickenpox? Rare in the U.S. and Canada for almost half a century, and unknown there since 1947, smallpox is endemic in Brazil; 2,644 cases were reported in 1960, and 1,411 in 1961. Near Laranjeiras the Orrs had visited a ranch where children were down with the pox, but nobody paid much heed or knew what kind.* By the time the Orrs got to bustling, ultramodern Sao Paulo, 400 miles away, James William Orr, 14, complained of fever and a sore throat. A local doctor diagnosed influenza and hopefully dosed him vith medicine. The feverish boy lay around Viracopos...
...Geraint Jones conducts his own capable orchestra. On the same record--and, though unseasonal, it is probably this fact that leads us to prefer Jones' recording--is a performance of Henry Purcell's magnificent and rarely heard Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. (Her majesty died of small pox on the fifth of March...