Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From then on, the picture suggests a graph of jungle jitters. Cinemactress Bennett provides the fatal virus. Young Douglas Fairbanks runs up the highest curve. To make matters hotter, the jungle (which covered 45,000 square feet of a Universal lot) teems with hostile Indians. To make doubly sure that it is all right for Douglas Fairbanks to go off with Joan Bennett, the Indians kill her husband and it turns out that he was a bigamist...
Mice & Men. Leukemia is a blood disease in which white blood cells proliferate wildly, invade organs and tissues. At the Department of Genetics, Dr. Edwin Carleton MacDowell and his co-workers found that leukemia is not transmitted by a bacterium or virus, that it is a malignant disorder resembling cancer. Moreover, they discovered that some mice could be made immune by shooting into them leukemic cells inactivated by mild heat (115° F.). So far, this work has not produced a cure for leukemia in man, but may lead to one eventually...