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...state health officials, Dr. Langmuir reported last week. Proudly, he added: "I know of no case where it took more than 24 hours to answer a request." But usually disease was already rife - in 18 outbreaks of infectious jaundice, eight each of poliomyelitis and encephalitis, and odd instances of rarer ills...
...such a thing. It took Kraft and a small army of prospector friends five years to prove them wrong. Roaming the U.S., they found the bright greens in tiny pockets from Alaska to Wyoming, discovered the rare rose jade in a single small boulder in California, the even rarer white jade in a steep Arizona canyon. Kraft studied great windows of the past, decided that a simple cross would be the best design, then began cutting the hard stone to a thickness of three millimeters (about as thick as a half-dollar). He had to call in professional lapidaries...
...Stranger In Between also offers what is rarer in a chase film: the human sympathy that grows up between the orphan boy, who is afraid to return to his cruel foster parents, and the young man, who has killed his floozy-wife's lover. At first the two string along together out of necessity, but finally each develops a real affection for the other. Dirk Bogarde gives an intense performance as the fugitive, and towheaded Jon Whiteley is a sad-eyed, touching figure...
Venetians came to satisfy their curiosity, stayed to enjoy themselves. They admired the conductor's vigorous command of the orchestra, warmed to his obvious sympathy for the music. II Gaz-zettino's usually acid critic praised Dixon's "technical precision . . . and sensitivity to the rhythmic values." Rarer still was the response of the musicians: they donated their services for an extra rehearsal, and said they hoped the conductor would come back next year...
...second edition (which Exposition publishes at its own risk) is rarer still. Says Publisher Uhlan: "Our authors must be prepared psychologically and financially to lose money. Other houses may promise riches. We never promise riches. We just offer immortality!" Immortality is the one thing that no book thus far published by Exposition is apt to achieve. Though house editors and freelance polishers work over the sometimes "shapeless" manuscripts that come in, many of them still emerge as embarrassingly bad books and most of them might better have been carried to the attic...