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...attention were the bacteria, hulking big microbes (by comparison with viruses) that generally attack by producing systemic poisons rather than by invading the body's cells. Antibiotics have wiped out or brought under control virtually all the major bacterial diseases: tuberculosis, some forms of pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, gonorrhea, syphilis and most of the other illnesses that stir memories of Paul de Kruif's heroic Microbe Hunters...
...first wife longed for social place She thrashed about with scarlet face To get the chance to meet a prince. My second made me shake and wince By violence, by blasts and blares, As she managed other folks' affairs. My third was winsome, playful, kind, But often difficult to find, For it was hard to keep in mind In what man's bed she now reclined...
...mansion by her garter straps. One election year in Louisiana, she entertains a cotton-pickin', git-tar-strummin' candidate for Governor (Dean Martin), who so deeply appreciates her "campaign contribution" that he asks her to marry him. She does, and when he wins in November the scarlet woman suddenly becomes the first lady...
Died. Julia Mood Peterkin, 80, patrician South Carolina authoress ("I am not a literary person; my career is the plantation"), whose Scarlet Sister Mary, a folk tale of a Negro woman "in a patient struggle with fate," won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; of heart disease; in Orangeburg...
...center of this Vicksburg-on-Avon, Troilus himself was a Confederate lieutenant, and his faithless little old Cressida's motto seemed to be: More scarlet than thou, O'Hara. Pandarus oleoed between the lovers, with slicked-down hair and a Burgundy dressing gown, and made his last exit carrying a carpetbag. "As I worked on the play," explains Stratford Director Jack Landau, "it became clear to me that the division was not one country against another, one part of society against another. It's a culture divided against itself-in effect, a civil...