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Death Revealed. Of George Charles Beresford, 72, original McTurk of Kipling's Stalky & Co.; in Brighton, Eng.; fortnight ago. After school with Stalky (Major-General Lionel Charles Dunsterville) and Beetle (Kipling) at Westward Ho! he went to India as an engineer, contracted malaria, returned to England, became an antique dealer and photographer...
...last summer, would be Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson. Next day even bigger news broke. The New York Times, whose White House pipe line is the envy and despair of other papers, revealed that Robert Worth Bingham, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (now recuperating from malaria at Johns Hopkins), would be replaced by Irish Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
Gray. At the University of Texas 34 years ago there was a freshman, George W. Gray, who entered every science course open to freshmen and after only a year's study was removed from college by a severe attack of malaria. Afterwards he became a newspaper reporter, and although he took time out to finish his education at Harvard, he continued to hold jobs in newspaper offices and publishing houses. Seven years ago he published his first scientific article in the Atlantic Monthly. Today, a small, ruddy, cheerful, white-haired man with a southwestern drawl he has a less...
...financially with 130 agencies, in amounts varying from a few thousand to several hundred thousand dollars. To scholars doing advanced scientific work it provided 222 grants. It provided 700 fellowships for post-graduate training. It conducted research through a field staff of 70 public health experts on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, yaws, diphtheria, schistosomiasis. influenza. Its money flowed into 53 foreign countries from Scandinavia to Java. The agencies which it helped included 41 local and national governments, 44 educational institutions, 20 research institutes, two libraries, 23 councils, associations, societies and commissions, mostly national or international...
...group of syphilologists calling themselves the American Committee on the Evaluation of Serodiagnostic Tests for Syphilis quieted the doubts of many doctors concerning the trustworthiness of tests for syphilis. Victims of yaws, relapsing fever and leprosy always give a positive syphilis test. Victims of malaria sometimes do. And many a syphilitic, especially after a few injections of antisyphilitic drugs, gives a false negative reaction. Most reliable tests, the Committee on Evaluation announced, are Dr. John Kolmer's of Philadelphia, Dr. Reuben Kahn's of the University of Michigan, Dr. Benjamin S. Kline's of Cleveland...