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With the subsidence of mass football fever symptoms on the Monday and Tuesday after the final grid tilt, Lipton and his aid, Jay L. Fialkow '48, both agreed that November 24 was the optimum day for the inauguration of the annual P.B.H. blood drive...
Zacharias punctuated his article with two sentences framed in Doomsday black: "A single milliliter† of the highly infectious psittacosis [parrot fever] virus could kill 20 million men. This virus can be produced cheaply in bulk by a small laboratory anywhere in the world...
...against tuberculosis-an antibiotic called chloromycetin-is reported in Science this week. Discovered in a sample of Venezuelan soil by Yale's Botanist Paul R. Burkholder, and isolated by Parke, Davis & Co. chemists, the drug has performed brilliantly (in the test tube) against the bacteria of tuberculosis, undulant fever and a variety of other tough germs...
Montreal's McGill University Observatory found that the city had an average temperature of 57° over the first 24 days of October, three degrees above the record. Quebec hay-fever sufferers complained that the warm days had brought back their sniffles. Violets bloomed in Westmount. It was dry too-the fourth driest October on record. There had been only .85 inches of rain all month in Montreal...
...fifty cents. The Simmons girls, showing feminine cunning much beyond their years, blamed the results on material circumstances. They said that they felt awkward about bidding for dates and when the Harvard man came up first, quite by chance, they were not very enthusiastic. Later on, as the bidding fever spread, prices shot skyhigh...