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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised won prizes. Alma Neill left her farm to study physiology, is now professor of her subject at the University of Oklahoma, but she has never lost her interest in corn. Five years ago, when an epidemic of what doctors called encephalitis killed 60 people in and about St. Louis, befuddled and paralyzed many more, Professor Neill suspected that infected corn was the cause. Last week a convention of biologists in Baltimore listened respectfully while she explained her diagnosis...
...first suspected that infected sweet corn might have caused the epidemic when she noticed a peculiar discoloration on the stalks of corn in the St. Louis region. She took some of the corn back to her laboratory, fed it to rats and a monkey. The animals developed encephalitis symptoms-stiff necks, nervousness, paralysis-finally died...
Last week, later than usual, on the very eve of the season's opening came the Dean headlines. But this time they were different. The big, right-handed pitcher, who had been a trademark for the St. Louis Cardinals ever since 1934, when his bumptious performances on & off the ball field made him a national clown-hero, the pampered super-pitcher who could not be bought for less than $400,000-this paladin of sport had been traded to the Chicago Cubs for three ordinary players (Pitchers Curt Davis & Clyde Shoun. Outfielder George Stainback) and a reported...
...tiny island of St. Gildas, off the northern coast of Brittany, went Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh once again to visit and collaborate with his great & good friend, Author-Scientist Alexis Carrel (Man, The Unknown). Few days later it became known that Colonel Lindbergh had purchased the nearby island of Illiec, complete with chateau...
During the Ethiopian War Thomas Joseph Pendergast, Democratic dictator of Kansas City, was said to have used influence in Washington to quash the proposed U. S. embargo on oil to Italy. Last week Italian Vice Consul Alessandro Savorgnan of St. Louis draped around Dictator Pendergast's pudgy neck the insignia of the Order of Commander of the Crown of Italy...