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...first of the broadcasts, employing music (by WPA Musician Rudolph Schramm) and a blood & thunder script (by Broadway Playwright Bernard Schoenfeld). told of the departure from Santo Domingo of three conquistadors, Pizarro, Cortes and Balboa, to search for gold on the mainland. Its dramatic climax: his following reduced by fever and cowardice to twelve men, Pizarro faces toward Peru on the sands south of Panama, shouts: "We are 13 against the jungle! . . . Thirteen against the heathen...
...escaped general notice in the emphasis on other phases of our political and economic problems. That principle is is that one of the functions of government is to look after the health of its citizens. It is obvious, when one stops to think of the contagious diseases--typhoid fever, dyptheria, and the like--which twenty years ago held the population in their grip, and which now are rare occurrences, how much public health services and public hospitals have contributed to stamping out these diseases. The democracy does provide curative treatment for its citizens, and to have this care extened...
...president of the Dramatic Club, Hart directed last spring's production of "The Dog Beneath the Skin" and is directing the production of his own play. In the past he has associated with Aldrich and de Liagre in producing "Petticoat Fever," "Three Cornered Moon" and "Pure in Heart...
...breeders advise me the female will not breed. On the other hand, about the same number of breeders say they have never experienced any difficulty in breeding the heifer when one of the twins is a male. The veterinary who attended the mother for a mild attack of milk fever says the contention, that heifer calves who have a male twin will prove to be sterile, is just a yarn without foundation...
Most victims of last week's medical catastrophe suffered from gonorrhea, some had septic sore throats. Latest remedy for those grave conditions-and a good remedy in case of scarlet fever, erysipelas, and cerebrospinal meningitis-is sulfanilamide. Noting a great demand for sulfanilamide, 61-year-old Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, who compounds veterinary medicines in a good-sized factory at Bristol, Tenn., this summer decided to add that drug to his line. Knowing that his Southern customers prefer their medicines in bottles,* he sought something in which to dissolve sulfanilamide, which had hitherto been taken in tablets and intravenous...