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...faced a crisis, but none faced a crisis so complicated and peculiar as that of the U.S. It was no crisis akin to the violent one in Moscow, to the Cabinet overturn in Tokyo, to the tension in London; it was more nearly akin to the crisis of a fever, when the hearing is confused, the mind wanders, and fitful and disjointed images fill the brain. For the Nazis the advance on Mos cow was simple-this was the sixteenth time in two years they were moving upon the capital of another country. For the conquered countries of Europe...
Looking up from the unreal war news in his paper, a citizen could turn up images of U.S. life as disjointed as the visions of a fever: a 16-year-old boy, running away with two girls, 15 and 14, confessed killing a North Carolina carpenter because he wanted his automobile . . . in Raleigh, N.C., an obstreperous elephant, being put out of its misery, refused to die, sagged on its legs for 40 minutes while a prison warden pumped over 100 shots into it with a submachine gun . . . in Boston, showgirls demonstrated the V for Victory campaign and, incidentally, the unreality...
...Although London has 8,000 miles of water mains, and every big main has been broken at some time or other, there has been no typhoid fever. Reason: large quantities of chlorine were immediately poured into the water. There has been, confessed Sir Wilson, a good deal of paratyphoid, a milder cousin of typhoid. This was traced to unclean bakeshops...
...discoverer of the scarlet fever bacillus, Dr. Frank Burr Mallory, '86, professor emeritus of Pathology, died Saturday night...
...Mallory had made an international reputation for his work in isolating infectious diseases. When an assistant visiting pathologist at the Boston City Hospital in 1903 he successfully determined the organism that caused scarlet fever...