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There are those who spot faults in this program of diminishing returns. Emphasis on "dinner table education" and tutorial work would decline as grades became all-important. With draft boards sifting greedily through the D's and E's, the universities would sponsor rat races for grades. And the plan would recognize no difference between an educational playground and a college like this...
...most serious brush with occupational disease came in 1932. Dr. Dyer was one of a team which had just about proved that U.S. endemic typhus is borne by rat fleas (instead of human body lice, as in Old World epidemic typhus). Then an infected rat flea in PHS's misnamed Hygienic Laboratory bit Dr. Dyer. That clinched it: he got a severe case of typhus. Previously he had thought of endemic typhus as a mild form of the disease. Now he said: "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff? I talked to the angels the last three...
...figuring the miles-per-gallon on a 5,000-ft. climb keeps him scribbling for 20 minutes. "A man can just about keep up with his work if the flight is ideal and not a damn thing goes wrong," an engineer explained. "If anything slips it's a rat race all the way back to the base. What this thing needs is an engineer with four hands and five eyes...
Many a man has gone grey trying to find a cure for grey hair. Even vitamins such as pantothenic acid, which works fine on rats, have no effect on humans. But the search goes on. Last week Dr. James Hundley and Robert B. Ing of the National Institute of Health reported that they had found a new clue in their rat cages. Black rats which got a diet with plenty of pantothenic acid but not enough copper went grey within eight weeks; boosting the copper in their food started a fine crop of black hair growing again within five days...
...enough for the other. And it is never good enough-even in intention-for the author of Born Yesterday. So little has Author-Director Kanin been concerned with writing a play that he hasn't wholly managed to write a show. As in last season's The Rat Race, he has leaned heavily on vaudeville...