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...deceptive and insidious disease. In its first stage it looks like an ordinary respiratory infection, perhaps a mere sore throat, and is often overlooked or mistaken for another disease. Recent research has shown that the infection is usually group A streptococcus (but not streptococcus of other groups), and occasionally scarlet fever...
...crews which finished behind Harvard's, only Rutgers had previously raced against the Bolles boat. The Scarlet oarsmen participated in the ill-fated Severn River regatta at Annapolis, in which the Harvard boat was last...
...Scarlet Tree is Vol. II of Osbert's autobiography, covering the period of his seventh to 17th years (1899-1909). Like Left Hand, Right Hand! (TIME, May 15, 1944), it is a combination of acute filial impiety, antique sentence structure and genuine literary skill. If anyone else had dared publish half its secrets, the Sitwell trio would have screamed with rage, summoned their solicitors and sued with a vengeance.* As it is, The Scarlet Tree is by no means the spectacular Sitwell history that may some day be written, but it is a family album with portraits...
...Little Sitwells. That childhood was so sheltered, so beset with nurses, governesses, tutors and eccentric relatives, that it is no wonder the three little Sitwells, grown up, confuse heredity-"that fragile scarlet tree we all carry within us"-with an extraordinary environment. Edith as a girl was hung with corrective clamps and braces, including a nose-shaper, and was forced to swing herself dizzy on rings and parallel bars...
...gurl. There were ancestral ghosts in Tudor or Jacobean chambers, and the spectacle of daily prayers, attended by a long line of footmen and housemaids, "seemingly well-drilled as a corps de ballet." Big-eyed, the little Sitwells took everything in. Their world was almost as special as their scarlet tree...