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...killer of U.S. babies is whooping cough, which takes a heavier toll than scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and infantile paralysis combined. Last week, doctors at the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City heard reports on 1) a new way to prevent the disease in newborn infants; 2) the serious mental effects of whooping cough...
...bountiful in Scotland last autumn-134,000,000 hips weighing 200 tons were gathered before the Ministry of Health cried halt and further tons of hips were collected in England, so that this spring British druggists are marketing 600,000 bottles of hip syrup. Hips* are the soft scarlet, hairy fruit of the rose...
...Radio Reader (CBS, Monday through Friday, 9:15-9:30 a.m. E.W.T.), another bookish experiment. Invitation to Learning's sensible Mark Van Doren (TIME, Nov. 24) started the program by reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which offered housewives a change of pace from other sin-and-suffer programs, gave bedfast patients in hospitals something worth listening to. Van Doren makes no attempt at Dramatic emphasis but reads articulately and quietly. He opens with a summary of the dramatic situation, reads 14 minutes (without skipping), stops when his time runs out. If listeners like the program (first...
Tied to the campus for protection against an epidemic of measles, mumps, and scarlet fever, the Smith girls had grown apprehensive about falling behind on social activities. One committee had already written to assure Freshmen that they would be available for Jubilee dates...
...camera shutter-in the way they handle their grunting green tanks, the symphonic grace of their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...