Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHNSON'S WAX. Filmmakers Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid traversed three continents to produce a movie that is fast, fresh and free of commercialism. To Be Alive! opens on Manhattan's midtown madness, then starts life over again and leads the spectator along the joyous paths of childhood...
JOHNSON'S WAX. In the copper-colored clam suspended over a reflecting pool is a short film of surpassing excellence. To Be Alive! sets off on a breathless safari to explore the joys of human experience. The triple-screen montage compiled by Alexander Hammid and Francis Thompson is fast and fresh...
Just how the streptococci cause the kidney inflammation, however, is not yet known. It is not by direct infection. Likeliest explanation, said Dr. Thompson, is an immune reaction. The inflamed kidneys take weeks or months to return to normal. Children are more likely than adults to develop nephritis. But 90% of children, as against only 50% of adults, recover completely...
Immune Reaction. One of the common types of kidney disease, said Cornell's Dr. David D. Thompson, is inflammation of the filtering system itself, called glomerulonephritis. Richard Bright, who died before Pasteur even suggested the microbial theory of infectious diseases, noted that many victims of this kidney disorder had recently recovered from scarlet fever. Now that scarlet fever is known to be caused by streptococci, said Dr. Thompson, physicians can predict an outbreak of nephritis after a scarlet-fever epidemic...
Married. Dr. James Slater Murphy, 41, associate professor of virology at the Rockefeller Institute and Happy Rockefeller's ex-husband; and Victoria Thompson, 25, Manhattan socialite turned schoolteacher; he for the second time; in Manhattan...