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When a human victim of viral infection gets a stuffy head and a sore throat, or suffers a splitting headache and the feeling that his bones are breaking, or develops the blisters of cold sores or the rash of measles, his body is reacting to the biochemical disturbances that come from invasion by viruses. Viruses kill millions of people around the world every year, and give the miseries to hundreds of millions more...
Certainly Bergman has the makings of an excellent comedy. Working from the Irish proverb, "A woman's chastity is a sty in the eye of the Devil," he develops the story of a devil plagued with a sore eye, which his advisors attribute to a Swedish vicar's careful daughter. The arch fiend considers his resources and finally decides Don Juan is the man to remedy the situation...
Hamlin was hampered by a stitch in the Big Three run, and Mullin had a sore leg. Meehan turned in a courageous effort by taking fourth despite an illness which would have sidelined most people...
...Mullin's sore leg hampered him, and he was unable to challenge the leaders. Nobody had the dry heaves, but Meehan had the wet heaves rather extensively before the race. His fourth-place effort despite illness was courageous indeed...
Brian McPhelim took first for the Yardlings in their overwhelming triumph, with a 15:07 clocking. Captain John Ogden, competing on a sore leg, bravely stuck it out for a ninth place, out of the scoring column for the first time but ahead of all enemy runners...