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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More puzzling to physicians than the remarkable intensity of equine encephalomyelitis this year were a few scattered cases of encephalitis ("sleeping sickness") among children on farms in southwestern Massachusetts. Encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, is ordinarily not widespread in the U. S. Its last large epidemic occurred in St. Louis in 1933. Cause of the disease is a virus of which little is known. Its most prominent symptoms are high fever, headache, delirium, restlessness or lethargy, double-vision, paralysis or involuntary jerking of fingers, arms, legs. Unpredictable are its after-effects which may include "parkinsonian mask," (complete absence...
Like many a successful conductor's wife, Natalya Konstantinovna was a woman of means. Together they financed an orchestra for Koussevitzky to practice on, and gave a series of concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Koussevitzky Concerts began to catch on with the Russian public. The Koussevitzkys chartered a ferryboat, made a tour of the Volga. By 1910 Koussevitzky was the most widely-known maestro in Tsarist Russia. Meanwhile he had started a publishing house for music by contemporary Slavic composers, published for the first time (thus, incidentally, sparing himself the performance royalties) works by such famed artists...
...glare of magnesium flares, Golfer Ferebee completed his two-a-day transcontinental jaunt. For four days, while the majority of U. S. golfers stuck to their radios and stockbrokers stuck to their tickers, Broker Ferebee had stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. He had traveled 3,000 miles by plane, had tramped 155 miles on foot, had taken 2,860 strokes on 600 holes, had worn out two dozen pair of gloves, had not lost a ball. His lowest score was 77, his highest...
Manager Charles Leo ("Gabby") Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs, one of the greatest catchers of all time, sat in the dugout at St. Louis' Sportsman's Park last week with two fingers wrapped in gauze. Nervously he watched his teammates, beaten by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first game of a doubleheader, whack out 17 hits for a 10-to-3 victory and thereby clinch the National League pennant on the next to the last day of the season. In that split second between the final put-out and the first whoops of his teammates, grinning Gabby...
...clinching game against the Cardinals. Others hailed big Bill Lee, winner of 22 games this season, who pitched on four successive days last week; Dizzy Dean who, even with his sore arm, beat the Pirates in the first game of their crucial series just before the final series in St. Louis; Manager Gabby Hartnett who, knowing Dizzy Dean's love for dramatic spots, smartly selected him to pitch the crucial game, then next day socked the homer that put the Cubs in first place; and Owner Philip K. Wrigley, who selected Go-getter Hartnett as the necessary sparkplug...