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Although the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities has no Radcliffe members, one girl will participate in discussions and another will vole on all disciplinary cases involving Cliffies...
...though not as extensive. In London, Birmingham and Manchester 56,700 high school children of 14 to 15½ took part: 13,300, who reacted negative to the tuberculin test, were left unvaccinated as controls; 14,100 more received BCG vaccine; 6,700 got another type of vaccine, vole bacillus.* Another 22,600 children, all of whom showed positive in tuberculin tests, were left unvaccinated as a second group of controls for comparison...
...rays. There were no deaths from TB, but 165 cases cropped up. Of these. 64 were in the negative-unvaccinated group, for an annual rate of 1.94 cases per 1,000; 13 were in the BCG group, a rate of .37 per 1,000, and seven were in the vole bacillus group, for a rate of .44. Of particular importance: not one of the TB cases in the vaccinated groups was of the especially dangerous meningeal (brain covering) or miliary (throughout the body) variety. There were 81 cases among children with positive tuberculin reactions - a significantly higher rate than among...
...pomposity and gruff voice should provide the play with a comic touch. Sir William is indeed pompous, and since Sullivan has a cold his voice is even gruffer than usual, but the playgoer may wait all evening without hearing him speak a genuinely clever line. As the suspect Leonard Vole, Robert Craven creates a peculiarly obnoxious hero, not from bad acting as one might first suspect, but because Agatha Christic has made him so. The witness for the prosecution is Patricia Jessel, as Romaine. She should be commended for bringing some restraint to a part which calls for a mysterious...
What little suspense Witness for the Prosecution creates comes in the courtroom scene, which represents one of Miss Christie's better efforts in play writing. But even here, the histrionics of the acting, rather than the suspense, will be remembered as typical of the play: "Leonard Vole, you murdered this woman," cries the prosecuting attorney, and Vole answers with a voice which seems to shake the chandeliers, "It's all a horrible dream...