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...discoverer of the scarlet fever bacillus, Dr. Frank Burr Mallory, '86, professor emeritus of Pathology, died Saturday night...
Members of the hospital have already had active experience in combating epidemics in the United States and have also assisted in crushing outbreaks of scarlet fever, diptheria and meningitis, which arose last winter at Halifax, Nova Scotia...
...days later police thought they had found the car in a garage. They hid near by, but the "Scarlet Pimpernel" who came for the car shot it out with them, fatally wounded Caen's police chief, escaped again...
Between 1850 and 1855, five Americans published seven books which made that half-decade the most explosive in American cultural history. The men: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman. The books: Representative Men, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, Moby Dick, Pierre, Walden, Leaves of Grass. "You might search all the rest of American literature without being able to collect a group of books equal to these in imaginative vitality...
When courtly, magniloquent old Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst (Arizona's "Silver-Tongued Sunbeam") bowed out after his defeat last fall, he assured his colleagues that while they struggled on he would be "enjoying the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night or the scarlet beauty of her blossoming cactus." Last week the genial self-styled Dean of Inconsistency became a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Headquarters: Washington...