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Every seven seconds, doctors estimate, someone somewhere in the world dies of tuberculosis. Because TB is a disease that thrives on poverty, overcrowding, malnutrition and ignorance, its prevention is largely a sociological problem. Doctors, however, have long searched in vain for a medical weapon that would work against TB with the sure efficacy of, say, the smallpox vaccine against smallpox. The best they have found so far is the vaccine called BCG, which was first tried out on calves in 1908 at France's Pasteur Institute...
...bestselling Author Betty MacDonald, 42, rummages back through her life in an effort to shake the last giggle out of her job-seeking days during the Depression. After Betty walked out on her husband and deserted the chicken farm (The Egg and I), but before she came down with TB (The Plague and I), she went to live in Seattle at her widowed mother's house. There her bossy big sister Mary, a live-wire private secretary with a city full of contacts, thrust her into the hands of one employer after another, including "a rabbit grower, a lawyer...
Frame's hobby began one day last year when in a police court Frame ran across a deserter who had been picked up as a vagrant. He made friends with the man, investigated his case and found that he had "trotted" in 1944 because his wife had TB. "The case opened my eyes," said Frame. "I had always held the popular misconception that deserters were no-goods, but then it occurred to me that many of them must have had what they felt were good reasons...
...clear up his condition, the doctors decided that Bobby should have a cross transfusion-a daring technique (TIME, June 13) of interchanging his blood with that of a healthy donor. The donor's kidneys were supposed to do some of the work which Bobby's were failing tb do, and thus give the ailing organs a chance to mend...
Probable Leverett lineup: le, Herlihy; lt, Peppard; c, Foster; g, Green; g, Saxe; rt, Farrington; re, Brown; qb, Hare; tb, Bradbury or Reynolds; wb, Gallo; fb, Wykoff...