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Died. Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg, 83, 1927 Nobel Prizewinner who in 1917 inoculated a paretic with the blood of a malaria-poisoned soldier, risking medical censure to establish the fever cure for syphilitic paralysis; after a long illness; in Vienna...
Died. Mrs. William B. Weeden, 88, first deaf child in the U. S. to be taught to speak and read lips; in Providence, R. I. Daughter of Governor Henry Lippitt, she was stricken at four after an attack of scarlet fever, had Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Educator Horace Mann to teach...
...national fever rose last week. Up zoomed the sales of political buttons. Movie theatres rocked to applause for newsreel shots of the candidates. Everywhere headquarters bloomed with bunting, boomed with antlike activity. Bettors bet more; arguments got louder; radio listeners found less swing and more oratory. The 1940 campaign was really...
...century ago Bellevue was a filthy, hellish pesthouse for typhus and yellow fever; 50 years ago a dumping ground for drunken bums, bastards, lunatics, penniless incurables. Fear of the place is still widespread among New York City's ignorant poor, especially the foreign-born...
...blood in foreign lands... An unparalleled hysteria gripped America and reached its apex in May when the low countries of France/collapsed/Every agency, Government and private, and the agencies of public information, seemed to have entered into an informant and fatalistic liason to whip the fears of this country to fever heat...