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There was no denying the fever. Last week the chart of the nation's inflated economy spurted higher & higher. Wholesale prices reached a new postwar top (59.2% above the base year of 1926), after three weeks of record-breaking climb. For the second month in a row, average factory wages passed the $50-a-week mark, to a new record...
Thirty years later, the mission was taken up by a man who had played the organ between movies at Manhattan's Capitol Theater. Jacob Maurice Coopersmith, a stubby, dedicated, bustling man with thick eyeglasses, caught the fever too. He caught it quite by accident. At Harvard, working on a Ph.D. thesis, he had trouble finding his way through Chrysander's 100 volumes of the Handel "complete" works: they had no thematic index. He decided to make one. After two years at it he had caught up with Chrysander, but had accounted for only two-thirds of Handel...
Jeweled Anklets. London's papers did their best to keep the popular excitement at fever pitch by printing at least one new fact about the wedding every day. There was news of gifts, each one more fantastic than the last: a grand piano from the R.A.F.; a doily from Mohandas Gandhi, made of yarn spun by the old saint himself; 1,500 cans of lard from the residents of Eritrea; jeweled anklets and a statue of Siva from the Dominion of India; an ivory casket from Pakistan; a traveling bag made of elephants' ears from the women...
Government newspapers continued to attack the U.S. and its press, but spring fever obviously afflicted the editorial writers. La Epoca referred to "the New York newspaper, the Washington Post"; another sheet, with an equally fine disregard of the facts, damned the United Press, "whose figureheads called Roy, Scripp and Howard, also direct the New York Post, the Nation, and the New York Journal-American...
...Named for the Army's late Surgeon General William Crawford Gorgas, whose medical battle against yellow fever in the jungle made possible the building of the Panama Canal. *Who is not unsung. His name lives in the U.S. Army's Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco's Presidio...