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Almost 50 years ago, in a tiny hill town of Ohio's Belmont County, young Dr. Frederick Archimedes Korell was confronted with a medical puzzler: a strange new children's disease. Its symptoms: swollen glands, high fever, sore throat, coughing, abdominal pains. He was fresh from medical school and he had never heard of the disease. He treated the symptoms separately, and the children all recovered...
...forest fires, loggers' slang and legends. Author Holbrook's warmest passages are given over to descriptions of the red-light districts, skid roads and loggers' saloons that have flourished from Bangor to Eureka, Calif. Result is that Holy Old Mackinaw is a puzzler, with solid bits of unfamiliar industrial history sandwiched between slightly sophomoric tributes to vanished vice. Author Holbrook's loggers get into so many fights, frequent so many bawdy houses, sing so many logger songs and swear so many round oaths (of which Holy Old Mackinaw is one) that readers may wonder when they...
Cadet Stagg's desire to get off the Ranger was something easily comprehensible to the whole Pacific Fleet. He had just won the puzzler's equivalent of first prize in the Irish-sweepstakes, had beaten 2,000,000 other hopefuls for the $100,000 first prize in Old Gold cigarette's famed rebus puzzle contest (TIME, May 24). News of the award and names of 200 out of 1,000 other prize winners were published last week in 350 U. S. newspapers by P. Lorillard Co. Inc. over three months after the last Old Gold rebus appeared...
...Government property. In four words the Court disposed of the argument that TVA does not aim at legitimate surplus sales but is primarily engaged in forcing down private rates by "yardstick" competition. The four words: "Its motives are immaterial." Businessmen were scratching their heads last week over this Court puzzler: "Of course, it is true that the U. S. Government cannot engage at will in private business, but it by no means follows that it cannot sell property which it owns, even though in doing so it may enter into competition with other public or private owners of property." Politics...
...Mirror's first prize is $5,000. Second prize, valued at $4,000, must be taken in the form of a bungalow at Lake Parsippany, N. J. The 500 lesser prizes likewise are in merchandise. Each puzzler is obliged to buy a 10? "color print of a popular movie star" with each week's answers. Estimated revenue: $35,000, which will just about cover the cost of the contest, exclusive of prizes...