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Some ten years ago, Colonel Henry Edward Shortt, a British expert on tropical diseases, set out to find an answer. Last week he thought he had it: during the ten-day incubation, the parasite lurks in the liver...
...believer in hunches, Dr. Shortt tackled the puzzle with conventional research methods. In a laboratory near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, he shut a rhesus monkey into a cage with 500 malaria-carrying mosquitoes (previous experiments had used 20 to 100). Just to make sure that the monkey would hatch a really bad case, he killed the mosquitoes, made a solution out of them, and injected it into the monkey's muscles and chest. No other monkey had ever been so swamped with malaria. After seven days Dr. Shortt performed a careful autopsy. Said he: "I went over every conceivable piece...
...given malaria anyway for treatment of general paralysis. The patient and his wife agreed that doctors could take out a small piece of his liver by a minor operation, seven days after he had been bitten by infected mosquitoes. At 5 o'clock one morning Dr. Shortt got the sliver of liver, rushed to his laboratory and worked until 11 that night. Sure enough, he found the incubating malaria parasites...
Precisely as extralegal and august as national cinema censorship in the U. S. is Britain's Board of Film Censors, a body whose president is paid $10,000 a year by the British film industry. Last month the Board's president, red-faced, intolerant Rt. Hon. Edward Shortt died. Last week the British cinema industry picked as president of the Board of Film Censors one of the most distinguished and worldly men in the realm, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from...
According to latest dispatches from England, Allen Shortt 17', previously reported severely wounded and missing, is safe and well in a German prison camp. Shortt, who left college last year to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force, was recently awarded the military cross for exceptional bravery in leading his platoon across "No Man's Land" and capturing practically single-handed a German...