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...Progress (TIME. Nov. 20). Everyone who had been in Chicago, particularly everyone who had eaten in the Congress or Auditorium hotels there, worried for months about a tiny blob called Entamcba histolytica. Doctors would advise them to continue to worry. For, although as an aftermath of the Chicago dysentery outbreak, Soo were known to be infected and 50 to have died, Entameba histolytica may lie dormant for months or years. Cases, some of them traceable directly to Chicago, are sporadically coming to light. Last week amebic dysentery again made headlines, this time in Manhattan...
...opposite. Mayor Walmsley swore in 500 new police, bought a dozen submachine guns, threatened to annihilate the guardsmen if they interfered with city government. All these martial preparations landed New Orleans on the front page of the nation's Press. The country held its breath in excitement for the outbreak of local war, with St. Charles Street running blood and the dead piled high in LaFayette Square...
...Author? Son of a Yorkshire schoolmaster, John Boynton Priestley still talks in his broad, matter-of-fact native accent. At the outbreak of the War he enlisted as a private, emerged in 1918 as an .officer. In his three years at Cambridge he "was always faintly uncomfortable, being compelled to feel?and quite rightly too?a bit of a lout and a bit of a mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News...
...official Wiener Zeitung roundly declared: "No reasonable observer of German events believes in the official version that Captain Roehm and his accomplices were just about to launch an armed revolt. It is unthinkable that an experienced soldier like Captain Roehm would spend the last hours before the outbreak of a revolt indulging in orgies in an obscure villa without even guarding its doors...
...Habsburg regime and finally, just before the War, teamed up with an able little man named Eduard Benes who was to become one of the shrewdest politicians in Europe and immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient kingdom of Bohemia and surrounding Slavic territories from the prostrate body of Austro-Hungary to make a new republic. It so happened that...