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...give their own injections. Perhaps the most enthusiastic testimonials to penicillin come from the most septic sources in Spain: the third-rate bull rings. In the past, many toreros lost a leg or died from common wound infections after being gored by a bull, but now the smallest arena has a first-aid squad armed with a penicillin syringe. One novillero last week put it in terms that, in Spain, were high praise indeed: "Thanks to Fleming. I can stand closer to the bull...
About 110 prospective freshman oarsmen turned out last night in Newell Boathouse for the opening meeting of the Yardling crew season. "It's the smallest showing since I've been coach," commented Bill Leavitt, whose last year's freshman crew won all its races except the Yale duel. Practice will begin almost immediately...
Tunisia (pop. 3,700,000), which is the smallest, happiest and quietest of the three French possessions, and the most advanced toward independence. Besides Algeria's inhospitable plateaus, this is a broad stretch of country sloping down through grain fields, vineyards and great olive groves to the sea. It is the classic Ifriqiyeh, which gave its name to the whole continent. From Hannibal and Scipio to Rommel and Patton, soldiers have grappled for its strategical coasts, but the present Bey of Tunis, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, 74, belongs to a dynasty that has reigned for 250 years...
...Central Virus Laboratory, run by famed Virologist Joseph Smadel, is concerned with the multitude of diseases caused by the smallest of microbes, which can knock troops out in no time (best example: the 1918-19 influenza pandemic). The lab has the Government's only polio diagnostic center. Says Dr. Smadel: "Our work ranges all the way from the fundamental and theoretical to the most practical. We can both develop theories and apply them. Aside from the Rockefeller Foundation, nobody else does research of this scope...
...Even the smallest companies like to have at least one country-clubber on their staff. One small Boston advertising firm has a low-70s golfer whose only job is to play with prospective customers, softening them up for the eventual sales pitch from another member of the firm. Bigger corporations may have a dozen memberships to hand out ta their executives, chart their plan of attack as carefully as any sales campaign. They spread their men around in different clubs covering every customer market, make sure to put each man in the club where he can do the most good...