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Reluctant Donation. Had it not been for a sore throat, Green Bay might still be just the paper napkin capital of the U.S. In 1918, Earl Louis Lambeau, a tousleheaded Notre Dame fullback and a disciple of Knute Rockne, came home to Green Bay to have his tonsils removed, stayed on as a $250-a-month shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Co. "Curly" Lambeau liked his job, but he still pined to play football. Within the year, he scraped up $500 to start a professional team. By naming his motley squad the Packers, Curly persuaded his reluctant employers...
...Swift and Harold Cohen in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which a fish tank served as the incubator. The germ, undiscovered until the early 1950s, had previously been found nourishing only in swimming pools. There it has caused several outbreaks of what has usually been called simply sore elbow...
...deep end. It was kept at a sybaritic 82°-85° by piping in water from a hot mineral spring. Trouble was, swimmers chafed their elbows on the pool's rough sides, and bacilli moved into the broken skin. There were at least 262 cases of "sore elbow" in the area. Doctors who tried antibiotics, anti-tuberculosis drugs, X ray, vitamins and plastic surgery did no better than nature. Most of the sores healed after a few months. But after they healed, 82% of the victims showed positive reactions to tests for tuberculosis even though virtually none...
Both Ed Hamlin and Bill Crain have been bothered with injuries that kept them from competing in yesterday's meet. Crain's sore knee has kept him out of action since the end of the cross country season and Hamlin's pulled leg muscle could slow him down against Army...
...came back to report failure on an assignment, he wordlessly drew from his desk drawer a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, bulldog pipe and magnifying glass, and snooped around the floor on his knees, as if searching for a lost trail. To an upstate Tribune correspondent whose copy stood in sore need of punctuation, Walker sent a full page of commas. His ways were not without their effect...