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Pimpernel plus Superman. In his bearing and behavior, small (125 lbs.), stooped Mosby resembled a cross between the Scarlet Pimpernel and Superman. Against the enemy his unvarying rule was to do what was least expected of him. When he rode, his cape "was turned back always in a flow of scarlet. A curling ostrich plume extended over his shoulder from a gray felt hat, and at each side hung a large Colt revolver, suspended in holsters well studded with brass." He was always kind to women & children...
...over the U.S., men discarded their coats and women their girdles. Ice-cream cones dripped at the drugstore door. Dogs' tongues hung out; thermometers were scarlet...
...Pope Pius X. For two days the Chapel of Relics in St. Peter's Basilica housed the body of Pope Pius X, who died in 1914, reputedly of a broken heart because he was unable to prevent World War I. The body lay in state, garbed in scarlet, white and gold vestments given by Pius XII. Two papal Guards, with drawn swords, stood outside the floodlit chapel as many a British and U.S. serviceman stared through the grilled doors at the Pontiff's face and hands, blackened by mummification...
...gram of sulfadiazine a day last year protected a quarter of a million Navy men for months from a dangerous streptococcus infection which was going the rounds of the Navy, causing sore throats, scarlet fever, even meningitis. Only about one man in 1,000 had a bad reaction...
...Navy's current measles rate is ten times last year's. Scarlet fever also increased, especially on the Pacific coast...