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...girl who marries the German who killed her lover in the World War. During Swift's madness the two lovers appear as his servants. Few readers will be able to follow Author Sitwell's symbolical connection between the modern world and the egomania that drove Swift to destroy the lives of Stella and Vanessa because he would neither live with them nor leave them alone...
...scientists now understand immunity to disease, 1) the blood develops substances which destroy certain germs and viruses that invade the body, or 2) body tissues develop resistance to agents of disease. Neither explanation covers the temporary immunity to infantile paralysis which distemper confers on monkeys. Dr. Dalldorf reasoned that "both viruses require, for their propagation, a common cell protein or other substance which the conjugation of the first virus exhausts and thereby prevents the multiplication of [the] other virus." If he and his associates are correct, they believe that they have discovered "a new immunity mechanism in the virus field...
Although he did not give concrete evidence of what he regarded to be the major issue--the growth of federal domination instead of leadership--he paved the way for a new departure which the Republicans would do well to adopt. If the elephant boys can destroy the impression that they oppose every effort of the government to discharge the obligations that economic changes impose on it, they may possibly achieve an understanding of the concrete demands people are making. Such an understanding will some day enable the G.O.P. to be of much more service to the nation...
...with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...
...Herndon knew was a thoughtful, dry man whose wife's temper was a scandal to the town; a law partner who brought his mean children to the office where they tore up the papers and urinated or the floor uncorrected; a practical politician who set out coldly to destroy Douglas when he saw Douglas as his rival for leadership of the West; a great talker who would start to work but waste his time telling stories and then walk home silently to a scolding wife. But he was also a local politician for whom great things had always been...