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...hospital had to be closed to new patients on July 25, and it stayed shut until October. More than 300 cases were recorded, two-thirds of them severe enough to require hospital treatment. Virtually all of the physical symptoms fitted the concept of an infectious disease: headache, sore throat, malaise, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea. Since the Royal Free's expert microbiologists could find no bacteria to blame, they concluded that the cause of the outbreak was an even smaller and more elusive germ, an unidentified virus...
Fritz Hobbs, who played despite a slight illness Saturday, could not compete last night because of a sore throat and high temperature, and as a result each Harvard man moved up one place. Hobbs's appearance against Navy may turn out to be his last at Harvard since his eligibility ends after this term...
...what can Phillips possibly say about the Depression? First, the throat-clearing generalization: "Some authorities describe it as the ultimate collapse of the industrial revolution, with the machine devouring man." Then on to the insatiate facts: one family in five had $3,000 to spend in 1932, the average weekly wage of factory workers was $16.21, the cost of a Chevy was $445, etc. The New Deal becomes a kind of family album of brain-truster portraits, with a few hasty tributes from Old Liberal Phillips. For instance: "Social Security was the most profound and the most enduring" of F.D.R...
Hello, Dolly! could have used those personalities on screen. Instead, it relies almost exclusively on the celebrated eyes, ears, nose and throat of Streisand. Her musicianship remains irreproachable. But her mannerisms are so arch and calculated that one half expects to find a key implanted in her back. Still, the Widow Levi is by way of becoming a classic repertory role. Over 50 women have played her on Broadway and in road companies. The stage version is less than 300 performances away from the longest-running musical record held by My Fair Lady. It now stars Pearl Bailey, who heads...
...knife-point of all her money because she failed to produce 15 piastres in change for some cookies he had bought from her. He saw Americal Division troops pound sand into the mouth of an old man suspected of being a V.C. They poured water down his throat until he nearly drowned. When he still would not talk, they unleashed a Doberman war dog ?and watched the dog tear the man from head to belly. Then they left...