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...recent addition to the Sox, but obviously an old kin in spirit, Dick Stuart still hasn't quite learned the knack of running. But then with his big, authoritative bat, he doesn't have to hustle on the base paths; he either homers or strikes out. Singles seem beneath his dignity...
...Portsmouth seven officers, most of them skippers of other submarines, manned a battery of phones and began calling the next-of-kin. They read a terse message: "U.S.S. Thresher is overdue, and we are investigating and will keep you informed as we receive information." About a dozen wives came to the base for the vigil, and Navy chaplains sat with them. At 11:30 the men on the phones changed their message: "We have heard no more from Thresher. We hold very little hope for survivors. Official announcement will probably come later from Washington." They kept up the calls until...
Halothane (C2HBrCIF3) is chemically kin to chloroform, which has long been accused of causing occasional liver damage. First synthesized in England in 1951, halothane was cautiously tested and carefully evaluated. By the time it was released for U.S. distribution by Ayerst Laboratories under the trade name Fluothane, it had been adjudged harmless in 10,000 human cases...
There are three such viruses, distinguished by numbers.* Parainfluenza 1 was first called Sendai virus, after the Japanese city where it was originally isolated. It is close enough kin to the true flu viruses to have once been called influenza D. It has now been found around the world. At one time or another, nearly every child in the U.S. gets infected with paraflu 1, and the illness is most likely to be severe in the very young. The resulting antibody may last a lifetime, but gives only partial immunity: an adult can be reinfected with the same virus, though...
...time. The most surprising works are the colored comics pages done in Germany for the Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1906. For the first cartoon, Feininger drew a caricature of himself holding his cast of characters by strings like marionettes. He called himself "Uncle Feininger," and his cast included the Kin-der-Kids and the appealing Wee Willie Winkie, who thought that every object in the world-trees, trains, puddles and clouds-had faces and feelings just like people...