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Harvard last week took its place beside the U. S. Public Health Service as a victor in man's fight against typhus fever. Surgeon Rolla Eugene Dyer, U.S. P. H. S., after letting rat fleas feed on his leg, last year produced a vaccine efficacious against the mild, flea-borne typhus which occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (TIME, Nov. 7, et ante). Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser has been developing a vaccine and serum against the louse-carried, virulent type of typhus which constantly threatens to invade the U. S. from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Last...
...credit but the net result was the same. Huge savings could be effected by elimination of these costly duplications. R.G. Dun & Co. is proud of the fact that Abraham Lincoln while an Illinois lawyer was one of their correspondents. Still in their files is a Lincoln report noting a rat hole in the office of a concern he was investigating suggesting that it "should be looked into...
...funniest sequence in Private Lives was the rough-and-tumble finale of Act II in which Mr. Coward and Miss Lawrence scrambled on the floor after she had cracked a phonograph record over his head. Even this delicious bit of business had its roots in earlier Coward work. The Rat Trap (unproduced) not only ended its second act in similar vein but its third as well. Perhaps it all goes back further than that, for when he was a child Playwright Coward once bashed a little girl on the head with a spade because she would not take seriously...
...fever: she knows it by the smell. Sure enough, she is right. And then, though the Doctor works like a bull to get the epidemic under control, his enemies go to work to put the blame on him. As Board of Health terrier he should have smelled out the rat that polluted the town's water supply. The "better element." cumulatively exasperated by Doc Bull's plain speaking and low living, rally to get his scalp. With conscious irony Author Cozzens lets the town villain, smart Henry Harris, save Dr. Bull's hair by turning the laugh...
...China Union University. Cheng-tu. Szechwan Province, where they teach, had sound teeth under crusts of tartar. The Agnews examined native foods, reasoned that phosphorus and sunlight were the essential preventives of tooth decay. They took leaves of absence from West China Union University to prove their theory on rats at the University of Toronto, their alma mater. Last week they were in Manhattan to tell missionaries, doctors and dentists that they have been able to produce or prevent tooth decay at will in practically any rat, by regulating the amount of phosphorus and Vitamin D in the diet...