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...sprawling, 113-year-old estate at Hyde Park which belonged to his mother until her death. With his mother's consent, in 1938 the President announced that the stately stone-&-stucco mansion, with 100 acres around it, will go to the U.S. Government when he dies. An adjoining tract of twelve acres, containing the Roosevelt Library, was formally presented to the Government in July. Rest of the 1,200-acre estate, virtually all woodland, presumably will remain in the President's family...
...Texas originally gave title to the land in question to an illiterate young Southerner named Wilson Strickland who had migrated west, presumably had fought in the Texas revolution. The tract was hilly, bone-dry, good for nothing except a scrubby growth of pine, and Strickland never bothered with it. He left Montgomery County, vanished into mists of hearsay; some people said he had been shot to death. In 1847 a Portuguese freebooter and slave trader named Allen Vince sued him for a $200 debt, got a judgment against the land. But Vince never bothered with it either...
Sulfanilamide, the parent drug, was first tried on a wide variety of bacterial infections. At present its use is limited mainly to meningitis, erysipelas, urinary-tract infections. It is easy to take, "well handled by the body and excreted without difficulty," but it brings about two "exceedingly common" complications: anemia and cyanosis (lack of oxygen). On the whole, it is "less effective therapeutically than other related compounds and is being supplanted by them." It is the only sulfonamide compound which can be given rectally with success...
...English Seminary in Spain, Chisholm was given to somewhat worldly high spirits. "Deputed to read aloud in the refectory he smuggled in and substituted for The Life of St. Peter of Alcantara a ... tract entitled When Eva Stole the Sugar" He also set fire to the newspaper Father Despard was reading in the common room. "Asked why ... he laughed and answered, 'The Devil finds work for idle hands...
Instead of dosing children with oil (it seems to lose much of its power in the digestive tract), Dr. Gerstenberger injects it into their buttocks. He does not use fish oil, but its essential element-synthetic vitamin D3, dissolved in a cubic centimeter of cottonseed oil. The vitamin is gradually absorbed into the child's blood stream...