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Events scheduled are: 50-yard free style, back stroke, and breast stroke, 100-yard free style, 200-yard free style, 150-yard medley relay, and 200-yard free style relay...
...club, again a strong contender for the A.A.U. outdoor meet in San Diego next month, are: ex-Navy man Smith, who last week beat Johnny Weismuller's U.S. 100-meter long course record with a 57.7; Ralph Wright, ex-marine who bettered the Olympic 200-meter long course breast stroke mark with a 2:42.3; and Harry Holiday, ex-Michigan star, who beat the U.S. 300-meter individual medley record with...
...eyes were sunk back in his ash-colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...
...Grigori Roskin of Moscow University casually picked up an article on South America's fatal Chagas' disease, a protozoan infection spread chiefly by an acorn-sized insect, the triatoma. In female Chagas victims there is a wasting away of breast tissues, which are composed of large, spongy cells. Could it be, Dr. Roskin wondered, that the devouring parasitic trypanosomes are especially attracted to large cells? And that cancerous tissues, which are also made up of oversized cells, might also succumb to the same parasite...
...drop in infantile mortality, from 71.1 to 30.4 per 1,000 births during the last 24 years. Today's growing shortage he attributes to 1) prosperity, with fewer women needing the extra income; 2) widespread indifference of doctors to the priceless virtues of mother's milk (breast feeding is discouraged in many hospitals: it means more work for the staff); 3) modern fashions in motherhood -notions that breast feeding is not only a dreadful nuisance but is somehow a little vulgar...