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...pattern of the phony epidemics changed from day to day. On some railroads the wildcatters began drifting back after a few days, but when they did, more reported sick elsewhere. At St. Louis strikers had "tonsillitis"; at Detroit they guessed, soberly, that they "must have picked up a bug...
Headlined London's Daily : THE BUG is BOSS. It said, "The influenza bug ... can unseat the government any day . . . Government by influenza is the latest phase of a year in which Mr. Attlee has hung on to power by six votes." A greater threat to the government than influenza is an increasing public swing to the right. The latest British Gallup poll showed last week that the government has the backing of only 38% of the electorate compared to 43% two months ago and 46% four months ago. Tory support has increased from 44% four months...
...plans left out his company commander's practiced eyes. Out to inspect the close-order drill class, Captain W. A. ("I'm a bug on proper uniform") Gorman quickly spied the odd bulge bobbing under Smith's jacket. He stopped the platoon and commanded the recruit to unveil the unmilitary mystery. When Gorman, also a steady TIME-reader, saw the reason for the bulge, he ordered Smith to "share his knowledge" with the platoon by reading aloud while marching...
...over the United Kingdom last week, Britons were hacking, aching and dying in an outbreak of influenza. This year's flu bug was not the killer of 1918. It was taking its toll mostly from the aged. Nonetheless, it was keeping Britain's gravediggers, many of whom had flu themselves, busy enough. In six weeks flu deaths in England and Wales rose from...
...York City's Idlewild Airport, an alert photographer spotted a dangerous stowaway: a yellow-snouted beetle, ⅝-in. long, which was crawling along the coat collar of incoming Conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Department of Agriculture inspectors hastily popped the bug into a vial of alcohol, sent it to Washington for identification. Last week the bug experts reported: it was "a formidable pest," a member of the Larinus family, which lives mainly in France and Italy, is sure death to thistles and artichokes...