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...Peiping Union Medical College has been held in Japanese-occupied territory for more than four years, but its large staff of scientists still carries on remarkable research on Chinese diseases. Head of Peiping Union's Department of Medicine, which was founded by the Rockefeller Foundation, is Dr. Isadore Snapper, famed Dutch physician. Last week Dr. Snapper, now a prisoner in Peiping, published a tragic picture of health in occupied China (Chinese Lessons to Western Medicine; Interscience Press; $5.50). His chief points...
...Said Dr. Snapper: "The parasitic disease which places its mark all over internal medicine in North China is kala-azar....It has to be considered in nearly every patient." This hideous malady, caused by tiny protozoa (Leishmania), produces an enormous spleen, anemia, and ulcers around the mouth, robs the body of its white blood cells, kills 95% of its victims who are not treated. Antimony is a specific for the disease, but of course few of its victims ever see a doctor until the disease is far advanced. Kala-azar is primarily an affliction of dogs, is passed to human...
What made his lucky break all the more gratifying to Max Haas was the fact that he is not a news photographer at all. A nightclub and society lens-snapper, he also specializes in sports pictures. German-born, a naturalized U. S. citizen, 33-year-old Cameraman Haas in 1931 started his own photographic agency, European Picture Service. Today his collection includes some 1,500,000 pictures, 500,000 negatives, of which 150,000 are shots he made himself...
...pedal percussion effects, the Golden Gate Quartet beat out the rhythm by precisely controlling the intake and outgo of their breaths. Their most popular songs are Samson, Noah, Job, Jonah, Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho, and a secular number-The Preacher and the Bear-with an old snapper: Now Lord-if you can't help me, for goodness sake, don't you help that bear...
...grey-haired, big-eared, balding Bill Donovan is a tough, free-swearing, ungrammatical labor leader in store clothes. When he thinks an argument has gone far enough, he closes it for keeps with the snapper: "And them are the facts! What the hell?" His prosperous Local 46 has around 15,000 members, over $90,000 in the till, closed-shop contracts with all but two of Chicago's 960 laundries. Some 90% of its members are women, about one-third are Negroes. In three years Bill Donovan has doubled their hourly wages. In that time there have been...