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...Named for Poland (Polonia), native land of Co-Discoverer Marja Sklodowska Curie...
Wolbach presented the first accurate description of the etiological agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1919 and described its clinical symptoms and pathology. He received the Order of the Commander. Polonia Restituta, from Poland for his studies on typhus as a member of the Commission to Poland from the Red Cross...
...tavern on the West Side made it possible for fans to stay in Chicago. Customer Syl Szajers, a technician at Zenith Radio, moved a converted TV set of his own design into the Polonia Grove bar. He rigged up a 40-foot mast on the tavern roof, perched a five-element antenna atop it, and pointed it in the direction of Milwaukee. A homemade booster amplifier brought in the signal and the Polonia's customers watched happily as Robinson knocked out his opponent. Said Szajers modestly: "Oh, the picture was a little shaky-but so was Rocky Graziano...
...have refused to budge from the two top floors of the building officially set aside for the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. Offers of 150,000 zlotys ($1,500) per family have failed to move them. Meanwhile, the U.S. Ambassador has had to live in the dumpy, third-rate Hotel Polonia...
...there since last March. Under Polish law the squatters cannot be evicted until "satisfactory " accommodations have been found for them. So far they have turned down all proffers. Meanwhile Ambassador and Mrs. Lane have been forced to set up diplomatic shop in a two-room suite in the drab Polonia, once a third-rate commercial hotel...