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...Medicine. In 1958 (most recent year for which full figures are available), 552 U.S. deaths were officially listed as caused by measles, as against 255 by poliomyelitis. Measles kills in many ways. The virus is sometimes the direct cause of fatal pneumonia, but more often it is the precursor of a bacterial infection. Measles also has a tendency to attack the middle ear, which may lead to permanent deafness (occasionally total) on both sides...
...only entertainment of the summer. Excursions to such distant points as Lexington or Concord, Charlestown, Marblehead, or the New Hampshire lakes, filled weekends and afternoons. Evening lectures were given by men such as Shaler or Harvard philosophers Josiah Royce and William James. A conference on educational techniques, precursor of the annual meeting on pedagogical problems, met periodically...
...League men's colleges rejected 25,740 students (the women's colleges release no figures). They accepted 13,640 boys to fill 8,545 places in September; the disparity is due to multiple admissions. But the handful were the most pawed over in the U.S. A precursor of the future at other colleges across the U.S., this year's Ivy League race was the fiercest of all time. It reached such a pitch that one Manhattan executive, overhearing two matrons as they were getting out of a taxi, swears that he heard one say: "Of course...
After the war, Terrell tried his hand at a twelve-minute'film called Smellodrama -an odorously unsuccessful precursor of Mike Todd Jr.'s untried Smell-O-Vision (TIME, Nov. 17). Then in 1949, Terrell opened the nation's first musical arena-theater tent at Lambertville, although " 'tent' was one of the few four-letter words you didn't use in the theater." To Broadway's surprise, he cleared $20,000 his first season. This year Terrell tentacles will scoop...
...Havana 1,000 angry cattlemen met to condemn land reform as "slavery," "confiscation" and a "precursor of violence and convulsions." A mass meeting of rice growers denounced the reform as uneconomic; Pinar del Río landholders pledged themselves "to defend our property, acquired by the efforts, battles and privations of years." Five Havana newspapers criticized the reform. Avance noted that the regime could no longer "dust off that celebrated little word 'counterrevolutionary' for everyone who dissents from official opinion...