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Primitive Christians. The agony of the Thirty Years' War left religious Europeans in a state of mind much like that of religious people during World War II. There was widespread dissatisfaction with the established churches, widespread social unrest. Central Europe broke out into a rash of mystical, often non-sacramental sects whose members strove (usually under fierce persecution) to recover the spirit and the practices of the primitive Christian church. In the midst of arid orthodoxy, they sought catacombs of the spirit where direct communion with God might be achieved, usually with little or no intercession by clergy...
...third-grade teachers of Harlem's drab, grey brick P.S. 119 took their children into the school yard for recess. One teacher played the piano while five little circles of Negro girls danced gaily. But nine-year-old Margaret Patton had a skin rash and sat alone on a bench. She was a well-behaved youngster - so well-behaved that she sometimes tattled to the teachers about other girls...
Ernest Hemingway, sporting a lush bush, was nightclub-sitting with Fellow Author John Steinbeck, who has just started to become a beaver, when (reported New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons) they were asked: "Why the beards?" Steinbeck: "Obviously, an affectation." Hemingway: "Obviously, to cover a rash...
...Instructions. Just before he left, he made a short speech to all the officers of the division. It was such a speech, as the one in which he was quoted as saying: "This stuff about tremendous losses [in the invasion] is tommyrot." But that comment was no gush of rash optimism; in context it was a simple statement of Bradley's faith in the fighting qualities of U.S. infantrymen...
Toxoplasmosis is a "new" disease, though African rodents and people have probably suffered from it since germs began. It often kills its victims soon after the first appearance of symptoms-rash, fever, lung infection, blindness and, in children, convulsions. But there was good news about toxoplasmosis in last week's Journal of the A.M.A.: Harvard's Drs. David Weinman and Robert Berne have proved that sulfapyridine cures the disease in 95 out of 100 mice even in very late stages of the disease...