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...July 1950 Ornithologist Elliott McClure, with a mixed armory of guns and hypodermics, began tramping Japan's bamboo thickets, mud flats and rice fields and grabbing young birds (in their nests) by the throat. McClure drew blood from their jugulars, soon proved their guilt. More than 60% of such favorite songsters as dusky thrushes and skylarks teemed with the virus, later with protective antibodies. More important in the spread of epidemics: herons, plumed egrets, cattle egrets, cormorants and blue magpies. (Major remaining problem in field work: Where does the virus hibernate...
With no louder fanfare than a polite clearing of its throat, Manhattan's Tiffany & Co. last week conducted a bargain sale, the first in its 118-year history not occasioned by a move to new quarters. Behind the sale was a change in policy brought on at stiff-backed Tiffany's by Board Chairman Walter Hoving, whose Hoving Corp. bought control of the firm in August (TIME, Aug. 29). There was also a merchandiser's desire to get rid of $340,000 worth of china and glassware that was not moving, along with items of jewelry...
...symptoms of mononucleosis are deceptively common: A sore throat, a little fever, perhaps some perspiring, slightly swollen glands, and a listless, fatigued feeling. These usual Monday morning sensations are often ignored by students, allowing the disease to entrench and become disproportionately difficult to cure...
...soda. When the ash-grey tissue peeled off, Shigeko's skin was shiny and smoothly lifeless. Eyebrows, lashes and hair were gone. Worst of all, her chin had all but disappeared, and the lower half of her face looked as though it had been melted into her throat...
...religion that pleases him, and care is taken never to annoy priests. Now that Soviet power has become so great, most priests have stopped their opposition to the Soviet government." ¶ On German kirschwasser: "This stuff is for oxen. I never in my life drank anything that burned my throat so much...