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...When we've got the ball, I've got five forwards. When they've got it, I've got five guards." What St. John's does have is a deep-seated enthusiasm for basketball that flows through its 7,600 students as the football fever does at Notre Dame...
Doubting Castle. Nowhere could the fever chart of 1949 be read better than in the stock-market tables. For three years, the market had been a baffling barometer of the state of U.S. industrial health. It had crashed in 1946 on the eve of the greatest boom in U.S. history, tumbled badly again in 1948 when the boom was at its peak. Though the market had not been able to detect a boom, it started out in the early months of 1949 to prove that it could certainly see a slump...
...doctors report, has its most Striking effect in reducing fever, spitting, and the poisoning of the body by tubercle bacilli. It also gives the patient a sense of wellbeing. A gain in weight often results from the treatment: one tuberculosis patient, who had been in & out of hospitals for 20 years, put on 26 Ibs. in four months. Used with streptomycin, PAS is invaluable in keeping down the development of strains of germs which have learned to resist streptomycin. The drug, conclude the doctors, is so promising that it should be tested more widely...
Somewhere along the line from Algeria to Tunisia to Sicily to Italy, Noles was bitten by a sand flea. In southern Italy he came down with aches, chills and fever. Doctors said it was malaria, and dosed him with quinine. Off & on, after settling down again at home in La Grange, Ga., Veteran Noles kept getting his old aches and fevers. He had no pep, lost...
...Mediterranean basin, in India (where it got its name, meaning black disease), China and Brazil. Prewar cases in the U.S. were mostly Lascar seamen or visitors from the Orient. Then scores of U.S. servicemen caught the disease. Many cases may still be lurking in veterans' bloodstreams as "undiagnosed fever." U.S. doctors have been alerted against...