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...Even swimming pools filled with filtered, chlorinated water are not too safe. For seven years Dr. J. Roswell Gallagher kept track of boys who swam and those who didn't in the Phillips Academy pool at Andover, Mass. Number of hospital admissions for respiratory tract infections was 14% greater among the swimmers, he reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Acute sinusitis was almost twice as high; mumps and measles spread more rapidly among the swimmers. But the total number of days spent in the hospital was about the same for swimmers and nonswimmers: the boys who didn...
...wife betrays him with a cheap social hanger-on who is not even physically attractive. His son & heir is killed. To save his sanity, the man betrayed by life & death goes abroad. In South America he falls into the clutches of a maniac recluse living in an inaccessible tract of the Amazon jungle. The mad outcast keeps the lover of the manorial past in a serfdom more awful than death-reading aloud the complete works of the laureate of industrial England, Charles Dickens...
...School's Class of '48 was among the last to be taught by such men as the late Walter Cannon, who died from overexposure to x-rays incurred in his study of the gastro-intestinal tract, and Eliot C. Cutler '09, the late Moseley Professor of Surgery...
Before planning for the future, the new group is waiting to see how much interest this first tract stirs up. If last week's spate of newspaper comment and requests for copies was any indication, Parliament's 77 Socialist Christians would have plenty...
...first time since 1938, when expropriation drove most foreign companies out. Under the deal Cities Service will set up a Mexican subsidiary (Mexico-Cities Service Petroleum Corp.) to provide the capital, and presumably the machinery and technical help, for Pemex's development of a million-acre tract in northeastern Mexico...