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...Lower. Kamp's enthusiastic admirer, Gerald L. K. Smith, hits even harder and lower. In his The Cross & The Flag, Smith writes: "A dispatch out of London reveals that the leading Jewish paper [unnamed] of that city now admits that Eisenhower is a Jew." Smith's Patriotic Tract Society distributes scurrilous anti-Ike ammunition from a St. Louis post-office-box address. Prize offering (25 copies for $1): a photostat of a page in the 1915 Howitzer, the U.S. Military Academy yearbook, in which Cadet Dwight David Eisenhower was called "the terrible Swedish-Jew, as big as life...
...experiments that give doctors their new hope. Working independently at Johns Hopkins and Yale, Dr. David Bodian and Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann had conducted almost identical tests and reached the same conclusion: there is a step missing in the widely held theory that polio passes directly from the alimentary tract to nerve fibers and thus to the nervous system. Drs. Bodian and Horstmann think there is a transient middle phase: that the virus goes from the digestive system to the blood stream, and from there, if not destroyed by antibodies, to the nervous system...
Bellows & Fire. Next, he put his thought into a religious and social tract a book which he assured his friends was "needed by all." When it was published a pious and disjointed tirade, his friends turned on him with angry reproaches. Gogol, whose bravado was the thinnest garment of self-loathing, broke and piteously begged forgiveness. "One drop of your pity," was all he asked. Few gave it Gogol lost his grip on the ladder...
...youth, Peters went to Mexico at 35 as the agent of an Illinois doctor who had bought land near Loma Bonita, sight unseen, and wanted it fenced, cleared and planted. When the doctor's son later arrived to take over, Peters bought a nearby 200-acre tract for himself. Finding that wheat and other northern crops did poorly in the region's hot, dry climate, he made a trip to Tezonapa, 75 miles away, and brought back pineapple plants of the Cayenne variety. They did well. Peters brought in more plants, and by 1910 he was harvesting...
...town of Stroudsburg, Pa. (pop. 6,300), first heard of the strange bequest, she scarcely knew which way to turn. Where ever would she get hold of ten copies of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There-the 19th century's gruesome lost-weekend tract? Unless she did, her two school libraries might never be able to profit by the $25,000 left in trust by the eccentric old ex-schoolteacher, Samuel Schoonover. An ardent, lifetime Prohibitionist, Schoonover had stated, in effect, in his will: no Ten Nights, no bequest...