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Kane. Another illustrious tough guy who got a hand in Philadelphia last week was Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57). While scamping his studies as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart. Undaunted, he studied medicine, got a post as assistant surgeon in the Navy. He fell ill in China, was twice invalided home from the Mexican War, once with coast fever, again with wounds and raging typhus. Undaunted still, he went on an expedition in 1850 to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, who had been...
Master of Carville is blue-eyed, white-thatched Dr. Hermon Erwin Hasseltine.Shy in company, but bold in his laboratory, Dr. Hasseltine has traveled from Alaska to Hawaii exploring such rare diseases as hydrophobia, undulant fever, psittacosis (parrot fever)-which he has twice come down with. An authority on leprosy, at 58 he still devotes all his spare hours to research...
...first threat to the question mark Crimson squad came from a rejuvenated Big Green outfit. Last fall Coach Karl Michael of Dartmouth began talking about a victory over Harvard as the climax of his first year at Hanover. He worked things up to a fever pitch for the Harvard-Dartmouth tank meeting a month ago, but the Crimson squad only unfurled a bit more of its power in completely humbling the Green. Next came the threat from Brown, and here again Harvard won as it please. Neither Springfield nor Columbia could ever be regarded as more than interesting workouts...
...Borrow's books had changed -forever - my life. . . ." Eventually she found what she was looking for - primitive, half-naked, arrogant gypsies in sultry caves near Almeria in Spain; nude flamenco dancers in the dives of Barcelona; tinkering tribes in the forest of Rumania; Andalusian gypsies who cured her fever with feverish music. But Lady Eleanor's stories of the gypsies are curiously impersonal and sketchy...
...proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched than brought off. The Bad Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard, the best thing...