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...soap opera is an island. When Helen Trent died in June, the bell was really tolling for Ma Perkins, The Second Mrs. Burton and all their kin. Over the past decade radio networks have been steadily losing time to their affiliated stations (who prefer to schedule local disk jockeys, with whom they can make far more money). Across the country fewer stations scheduled network drama every season; sooner or later the "soaps" had to go. NBC scrapped them at the beginning of this year. Last week CBS announced that the last seven on the air would...
...coaches look upon Rafer Johnson as a champion apart? The answer lies deeper than a lifetime of phenomenal athletic performance. For the spirit of the Olympic games is more than the will to win: it is the quality of competing with honor, courage and character. Says Calvin Johnson (no kin), a longtime friend of Johnson's and a doctor now in training to be a medical missionary: "I've never met anyone like him, in medicine, the clergy, wherever. He has a profound respect for other people, and a profound humbleness...
...Wisconsin River and began to warm up an old-fashioned Ukrainian songfest. All of them (aged 7 to 20) were the sons and daughters of Ukrainian refugees living around Chicago. As dedicated members of a patriotic American-Ukrainian group called the Ukrainian Boy and Girl Scouts (no kin to the National Boy and Girl Scouts), they had looked forward all through the city's hard winter to the annual scout camp near Mauston...
...Bethesda raises the problem of ensuring the safety of any live-virus material grown in tissue cultures of monkeys' kidney cells. The kidneys of the monkey species used in vaccine manufacture are loaded with native viruses. The worst of these is Herpesvirus simiae, or "B virus," close kin to man's benign cold-sore virus. It apparently gives the monkey nothing worse than fever blisters; in man it is almost invariably fatal. In Salk vaccine these B virus particles were killed by formaldehyde, but in making an oral vaccine of live, attenuated viruses, no inactivating process is used...
...first to set the Bacon thesis really sizzling was an Ohio-born schoolteacher named Delia Bacon, no kin. Bent on digging up the Bard, she invaded Holy Trinity Church, lantern in hand, one night in 1856, only to be appalled by the question of whether she should dig up Raleigh or Bacon instead. Unhinged by this quandary, she died hopelessly insane three years later. In 1888 Ignatius Donnelly, a onetime Congressman from Minnesota, uncorked the following numbers game: on page 53 of the histories in the first Folio he found the word Bacon ("I have a gammon of Bacon"), which...