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Evidently a first-rate cryptographer, Yardley gives a fascinating account of the deciphering of messages between Germany and Mexico, and of dispatches which brought a death sentence to Pablo Waberski. Anyone who has slipped notes between schoolroom desks or fancied "The Gold Bug" will enjoy clear expositions of the decipherment of codes which,--enciphered, transposed, and with "nulls" sprinkled through them--seem quite unassailable to the layman. And the reader will sympathize with Yardley in his struggles with the Japanese code, broken one morning several hours after midnight, after months of struggle with the language, and examination...
...Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. It was partly the family connection that made him head of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust. It is not probable that, like the crew of the Walloping Windowblind. Commodore Aldrich will ever be compelled to dine on the bark of the Rug-Bug tree or to traffic with a Chinese junk. A member of 18 clubs and seven directorates, including the board of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he can have contempt for the wildest blow on shore...
...Lady bug, lady bug, fly away home...
...disease is a trypanosome, protozoon which under the microscope resembles an auger. Two kinds of trypanosomes are indigenous to Africa, another kind to South America. The African types, borne by the tsetse fly, cause African sleeping sickness,* which kills 10,000 to 20,000 natives yearly. The "barber bug," a voracious Brazilian insect, is chief transmitter of the parasites in South America...
...Carlos Chagas and the late Dr. Oswaldo Cruz of Rio de Janeiro traced the disease in Brazil. The "barber bug" sucks the blood of armadillos and other rodents infected with the local trypanosomes. Then the bug bites humans, depositing the trypanosomes in the wound. The parasites twist through the blood, causing fever and other malaise. By and by they drill into the heart and other muscles and the thyroid and adrenal glands, bone marrow and brain, where they change their form and multiply. Their spreading through the heart muscle may cause death. The adrenal attack colors the skin bronze...