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...worm was about to turn for Commodore Pete Putnam's hardy little band, who went on to clean up the consolation regatta of the New England Championships, beating out nine other opponents, after barely failing to qualify for the Nationals...
...Speedy Worms. There was less good news about another old enemy of man: worms. There are some 2,000,000,000 people in the world and around 2,200,000,000 cases of worm infestation (some people have more than one kind of worms), reported the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Norman R. Stoll. Most worms thrive in the tropics, home of half the human race, and a reservoir of food and raw materials for the rest of the world...
...there was nothing new for schistosomiasis, which attacks the liver and intestines of 114,000,000 people a year, mostly in the tropics. Nor were there any new drugs for the most widespread worm disease, hookworm, which afflicts 457,000,000 people in the world, including 1,000,000 in the U.S. There is, said Dr. Stoll, no ideal drug for any worm disease, and meanwhile the worm population is keeping pace with the human...
...Book Worm. In Mineola, N.Y., Mrs. Philip Shannon Jr. got temporary alimony and custody of the children when she testified that her husband had made her read Karl Marx...
...senior high schools. Oregon first tried pamphlets, lectures and then lantern slides, but found too much margin for error and embarrassment on the part of teachers. In 1946 Professor Lester F. Beck, a University of Oregon psychologist, worked out a movie script. Its thesis: "The love life of the worm is an evasion of the human problem. Human sex should be taught honestly and scientifically." He tried his script on other scientists and educators, then submitted it to nine Hollywood producers. A documentary firm run by Actor Eddie (Brother Rat) Albert...