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...House suggested as suitable grounds: incurable insanity, habitual drunkenness and physical cruelty. But chances of approval by the stand-pat Senate were slim. ¶ Jack McVea's raucous tune Open the Door, Richard! (TIME, Feb. 10) was running through the country's veins like a low-grade fever. In San Antonio, a man named Richard was kept up all night by people ringing the doorbell and chanting the refrain. And in Manhattan old Jake Ruppert's brewery made it the slogan of an advertising campaign...
...main cellblock of Rangoon's big central jail rang to a chorus of angry chants: "Rebellion, Rebellion; Rise, Rise. Jail, Jail; Open, Open!" The Prisoners' Union - latest manifestation of a contagious Burman fever for organizing - was holding a protest meeting...
Launching . "the most comprehensive assault on heart disease ever waged by this country," the A. H. A. is concentrating its heaviest publicity fire on rheumatic fever. Some facts: ¶ At least 1,000,000 U.S. citizens suffer from R.F. and its sequel, rheumatic heart disease...
...heart disease. Though heart disease, as obituary columns remind readers every day, is now the biggest killer (nearly 600,000 deaths a year), it gets scant research attention. Even more shocking, says the American Heart Association, is the nation's neglect of the treatable disease known as rheumatic fever...
Rheumatic fever not only kills more U.S. children each year than almost all other diseases combined: it accounts for 40% of all heart trouble...