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Early in the week, Baltimore began to sweat and shake with its annual seven-day fever over a horse race. Despite a change in jockeys and a jinx, the horse causing the highest rise in temperatures was Hoop Jr., a satchel-headed bay that won an easy six-length triumph at Louisville. There was no standout challenger until midweek, when Pavot turned in a sensational 1:59⅓workout (for a mile and three-sixteenths). By Saturday, 30,000 fans who shoved into Pimlico for the Preakness had just about forgotten that there were seven other entries...
...bites are serious. All of the Johns Hopkins cases had infections or pieces of flesh eaten away. Seven developed rat-bite fever...
...bite fever, the original wound heals temporarily, later opens again, larger and more angry-looking, a rash develops, temperature rises to 103° or 104° F., falls to normal in a couple of days, then rises again in cycles which may recur for months. The patient may grow thin, have muscle pains, delirium, arthritis. Treatment is similar to that for syphilis and saves nearly every case...
...five cases of typhoid and two of undulant fever, reported by Philadelphia's Dr. Hobart Reimann to the New York Academy of Medicine, streptomycin chalked up five cures out of seven. The results are still far from conclusive, but the failures, said Dr. Reimann, might easily have been caused by incorrect dosage and a still insufficient supply of the drug...
...merely sketches charmingly, without perfecting, the humor, pathos and odd dignity the role might have ; but as the nightclub star he is magnificent. At the straight comic setpieces - the dancing and delivery of the bangtwanging Bali Boogie; the impersonation of a Russian baritone in Laocoonic struggle between his hay fever and Otchi Tchorniya; a glistening little telephonic imitation of a pet shop in full cry, including goldfish; and the hilarious opera climax - Kaye is a great but still growing virtuoso...