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...Come to the Fair!" he calls in one essay. "The Fair of Life is a fine one, even though we may, at times, fall from the swing-boats, or grow dizzy and faint as we ride the galloping, scarlet and gold clad roundabout horses, or fail to win a thing at any of the booths . . ." The booth marked "Modern English Theatre," O'Casey seems to believe, is rigged by a bunch of gyp-artists. First off, there are the critics, "death-or-drivel boys gunning with their gab from their pillboxes . . . those who take a step forward to enthrone...
...lush British colony, only three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...
...Doctors once numbered "primary specific fevers" of childhood (scarlet fever, measles, German measles) and called Duke's disease (no longer recognized) the "fourth disease." They made infectious blushing the fifth. It is not to be confused with "erythema of the ninth day," a reaction to arsenical drugs...
Easily a favorite in the whole Cambo bequest is Goya's classical allegory, Cupid and Psyche. It displays against the neoclassic decor the same kind of full-bosomed, dark-haired beauty that Goya showed as his feminine ideal in his famous Nude Maja. The scarlet-draped Cupid, with muscular body yet almost feminine features, complements her as the idealized lover...
Printer-Foreman Bill Meroney was part of a second procession: Reporter News workers having their hearts checked. Mrs. Adamson made sure that Meroney's questionnaire was completed ("Has anybody in your family ever had heart disease? Have you ever had rheumatic fever or scarlet fever?") After a blood-pressure reading, a nurse taped electrodes to Meroney's wrists and Dr. Adamson taped another pair to his ankles. Then the doctor switched on the ECG machine and got a reading of the electrical impulses generated with Meroney's heartbeats. He appeared to have a sound heart...