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...cough and lost weight steadily. Each day she taught shorthand to three classes totaling more than 70 pupils at Los Angeles' Van Nuys High School. Students and fellow teachers whispered, but nobody knew what ailed her. For Cora Sutherland was a Christian Scientist. Instead of submitting a chest X ray every three years (as do all but about 100 of LosAngeles' 13,000 teachers), she turned in an affidavit declaring herself free of communicable disease...
Alarmed, the city's health department went out looking for 72 recent Van Nuys graduates who had been exposed to Cora Sutherland's tuberculosis, urged all to appear for chest X rays. Last week the health department asked the board of education to require all teachers to submit to complete medical examinations. Said the resolution: the teachers now sidestepping the examinations"may be exposing the school population of 463,719 to tuberculosis, a leading killer...
Last week Art Buyer X's identity was still secret, but arrangements had been made for a suitable hanging for his acquisition. Mr. X had given Death of Agamemnon to Marquette University on an indefinite loan, with the stipulation that he will be allowed to come and see it whenever he wishes. At the unveiling ceremonies, university officials made speeches, a student read the death scene from Aeschylus' Agamemnon. In the audience, beaming anonymously, was Factory Worker X, who was about to pay the current $20 installment on his picture...
Other officers elected were Francis X. Mahoney '55 of Eliot House and Dorchester as vice-president; Lawrence M. Curtin '57 of Apley Hall and Los Angeles as secretary; Dennis J. Looney, Jr. '56 of Dudley Hall and Jamaica Plain as treasurer; and David E. Herlihy '56 of Dudley Hall and Roslindale as publicity director...
Phil Waring will be in action despite his roughing up in the Penn game. X-rays were taken after that game in fear of a possible broken jaw or concussion, but they showed nothing wrong. John Lane, however, is still out. He may be able to work out Thursday and Friday and play in the Dartmouth game on Saturday, but will not even dress today...