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...Angeles' weather, as well as its citizens, had given Alf Landon a chilly greeting, and, as the Sunflower Special sped eastward, the Nominee was nursing a cold and sore throat. But at Tucumcari, N. Mex., stung to fighting pitch by his Los Angeles booing and by recent Roosevelt speeches, disputing virtually every one of the President's tax points. Alf Landon struck harder and straighter at Franklin Roosevelt than ever before, accused him of "misrepresenting" the facts, went on to assert: "He is using the people's money directly and indirectly to secure his re-election...
Four months ago in Natick, Mass, a countryman named Vito Geneva was stung by a bee. He felt no serious effects at the time, but in his body there occurred an obscure, powerful response called anaphylaxis. This unusual condition is the opposite of immunity. A minute dose of a foreign protein makes the victim vastly more susceptible thereafter to further small injections of the same substance. Thenceforth to Vito Geneva a bee was as dangerous as a cobra...
Last week, while working on a farm, Vito Geneva was again stung by bees in the armpit. He went home, entertained friends, slept soundly, rose in the morning, collapsed. His doctor called for an oxygen tent, treated him for shock for five hours. Then Vito Geneva died...
Fishing near Saratoga, N. Y., Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle was stung 26 times by yellow jackets...
...Brother Nick did not get stung. The Schencks have never stung each other and have rarely been stung by anyone else. Brought to the U. S. by their parents in 1893, fresh from a little village in the heart of Russia, the Schencks lived a wretched life in Manhattan's slums until Brother Joe scraped together enough money for a pharmacy course. That landed him a drugstore job, and eventually one for Brother Nick. It was not long before they owned the store outright...