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...Streptococci from unpasteurized milk have caused epidemics of scarlet fever, septic sore throat, dysentery, epidemic ulcer in children, have been involved in infantile paralysis...
...week's end the sale was still at such a fever point that the Army refused to guess how much less than $6,000,000 the Stevens would finally cost...
...swish East Side clubs are going almost as strong. Variety reports that headwaiters, disguised in overcoats, stand outside two East Side clubs, being choosy about the guests. The Village is booming also. Only the smoke-filled, low-ceiled jazz spots that sprang up while Manhattan had swing fever are (save for one or two like Kelly's Stable) on the syncopated skids. People want soft tunes they can sway to and old favorites they can hum. Most ubiquitous new song: Cole Porter's torchy-chornya You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (best sung...
Eloquent Savior. By the third day, a Government crisis was just around the corner. Some M.P.s thought that Winston Churchill, sick abed with a cold and fever, would have to appear to save his Government. But a Laborite saved the day: wiry, grey-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison actually made no more concessions than Sir John or Sir Kingsley had made, but he stated the Government case with eloquent common sense. Morrison's clincher: Out of 23 Beveridge proposals, the Government had rejected only one (conversion of industrial insurance from a private to a public function); of the remaining...
Mexico has never been a great horse-racing country. Though their ancestors saw the first horses ever brought to America (by Cortés in 1519), Mexicans have always preferred bullfighting. In the '80s, when racing reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., Mexicans caught the fever for a while. Mexico City's Condesa race track, which flourished under President Porfirio Diaz, had the pomp of England's royal Ascot...