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Yellow Jack (by Sidney Howard in collaboration with Paul de Kruif; produced by the American Repertory Theatre) is still, after 13 years, a vivid stage document. It tells the story of the search for the cause of yellow fever and, without too much sentimentality, portrays the heroism of men' who gambled their lives in the quest...
Laid in Cuba in 1900, Yellow Jack shows a frustrated and not yet famous Walter Reed, and the doctors under him, deciding rather desperately to test out Cuban Dr. Carlos Finlay's long-held theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. The test is hazardous, for since only human beings get yellow fever, only human beings can serve as guinea pigs.* The first tests, moreover, are bungled; but eventually, after an Army doctor has died, a soldier has been inoculated by press-gang methods, and four others have become guinea pigs voluntarily, experiment turns into proof...
Fame people reported that the niches reserved for Revolutionary Philosopher Thomas Paine and Yellow Fever Fighter Walter Reed-both elected to the Hall in 1945-still lacked busts (nobody has yet come through with funds to provide them...
...tending sheep. When fire broke out in the radio of her husband's private plane, Cinemadventuress Veronica Lake smothered it with her mink coat, was forced to appear in furs borrowed from a friend. Frank Sinatra was bedded in Acapulco, Mexico, with intestinal trouble and a high fever. Crooner Dick Haymes went to bed for a week with sinus trouble. Trombonist Jack Teagarden, whose theme song is I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues, was sued for divorce. Errol Flynn, back to Hollywood from Jamaica for the birth of his second wife's second child...
...organization. But charity gets little: the bargain basement sells 90% of its merchandise the first day. Only one-tenth of 1% lasts long enough to be given away. Instead of creating a "wait-for-a-lower-price" policy, the system fans a "get-it-before-it's-gone" fever...