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...smoothly from a honky-tonk where the proprietor is trying to do him out of his pay (average: $4 per tuning) to the studio of a professional musician who hovers around trying to tell him how to perform his highly technical job. He must preserve his equanimity while clocks tick, automobiles honk and children play with his tools. Working with intense concentration, he can rarely tune more than three or four pianos a day. Despite their calm, it is not surprising that piano tuners sometimes have nervous breakdowns...
...Rocky Mountain area, where ticks have been carrying the fever since Indian days, people are not jittery about it. They know that only one tick in 300 is infected, that he must bite and burrow for several hours in order to transmit the infection. But in the East, where the fever has been recognized for only a dozen years, many people are afraid to walk in the woods. Recent trouble spots: 1) the District of Columbia, where three people, all bitten outside the District, have died of the disease; 2) Philadelphia, with five cases, one of whom caught the fever...
...Service has developed a vaccine for prevention and a serum for treatment (TIME, June 30, 1941), which cuts the death rate to a little less than 4%. Since all vaccine is reserved for people who must work in heavily infected woods, the Public Health Service advises others to de-tick themselves every few hours by using tweezers or paper to pick the ticks off-thus keeping the germs (if any) off the hands. The Army's Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk reports that sulfur dusted into shoes and clothes will keep the ticks away...
Only a Beginning. Penicillin is already big business, yet Dr. Fleming (who discovered it) and Dr. Florey (who made it tick) have got nothing out of it but praise-doctors generally do not patent drugs. Penicillin will save more lives than war spends, but there has been no military citation. Most tangible recognition so far was the Award of Merit of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association given to Drs. Fleming & Florey last December. Several months ago, a proposal to give Dr. Fleming a grant from the public funds was brought up in Parliament, but nothing came...
Grey Future. Politically, the Court's decision was a time bomb with a steadily accelerating tick. The bomb may go off at any minute. Much depends on the general patience of the U.S. people. For soon the whole U.S. will have to listen to about as much Southern oratory on the race question as anyone can reasonably endure. For of all things, the first item of business scheduled to come up before the returning Congress is the Marcantonio anti-poll-tax bill...