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...word telegram, the Citizens Emergency Commitee to Save Memorial Drive appealed yesterday to lame-duck Governor Endicott Peabody '42 to prevent the transplanting of 130 of the Drive's trees this December...
...home town of Quincy, Ill., my friends and I used to duck by the gatekeepers at Q Stadium just for a chance to see Hank Bauer play. He always played like he was in a World Series even though the poor last-place Quincy Gems were usually losing by about 10 runs...
...believes in pouring in ad money disproportionately to sales until a new product gets to the point, as a P. & G. executive puts it, where "it brings home the duck to dinner." The success of this formula makes P. & G. confident that the unfamiliar products it is test-marketing today-Velvet Skin soap, Top Job liquid cleanser and The Max blue detergent tablet-will also become household words tomorrow, thanks to the power of advertising...
...injecting the virus into the brains of rabbits. The vaccine that was later extracted contained rabbit-brain protein, and it was likely to set up painful local reactions. In some cases it caused paralysis or death. In 1957, Eli Lilly & Co. began marketing a vaccine made in fertilized duck eggs. Only the occasional person who is allergic to eggs will get a bad reaction from it. For dogs, a preventive vaccine made from live, though weakened, virus has proved effective. But it has been considered too risky...
...gives only short-lived, "passive" immunity, but it works fast. The trouble is that horse serum is almost as dangerous as the rabbit-brain product. Now, said Dr. Tierkel, veterinarians and others who have had a full course of vaccinations are being asked to take a booster shot of duck-egg vaccine. A month later, they donate a pint of blood. The gamma globulin fraction from the serum in these blood samples is rich in rabies antibody, and because it is from human serunr it should cause no bad reactions...