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...branch of the U.N. that has really accomplished things is WHO (World Health Organization). It has successfully fought yaws in Africa, yellow fever in Latin America, leprosy all over Asia, TB in India and Europe. Last week WHO got its strongest testimonial to date: Russia, which walked out in 1949, walked back in. Typically, the Bolsheviks refused to pay $3,800,000 in back dues, offered to settle for about onefourth...
Creatively, Marlowe matches his hero's immoderacies ; he shows a like hunger and fever, a commensurate strut and rant. But, as mounted by Director Guthrie, the play has its genuine glories, with scene after scene resembling a kind of richly lighted Delacroix canvas. And, as played by Actor Anthony Quayle, Tamburlaine has his very real magnificences, with speech after speech boasting Marlowe's leap and resonance...
...bizarre variety of diseases. What is surprising, says London Neurologist Sir Russell Brain in last week's British Medi cal Journal, is that Dickens did so with impressive clinical accuracy.* When doctors were just beginning to evaluate physical symptoms and other authors were using vague terms like "brain fever," Dickens "looked on disease with the ob serving eye of the expert clinician ... so that he often gives us accounts that would do credit to the trained physician." Samples...
...goes the dam, wham goes an earthquake. Temples crash. A wall of water whirls the hero away. Fissures swallow tons of peasants, and the earth munches on them the way a cow chews oats. Lana, meanwhile, is hammering picturesquely on death's door as she battles a tropical fever, and as soon as she can walk she staggers, understandably enough, toward the nearest exit. She is apt to find it crowded...
...most severe case of India fever in literature since Rudyard Kipling was brought down by it is undoubtedly that of Novelist John Masters (TIME, March 28). His goal is as massive as it is simple: to tell the whole story of the English in India in 35 historical novels covering 300 years. At 41, with five of the books behind him (including Bhowani Junction, Night Runners of Bengal and CoromandeU), he has a fair chance of carrying out his plan -particularly since he works on an electric typewriter, turning out first drafts at a clip of 11,000 words...