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...ignored what every Sherlock Holmes fan knows: that in fighting crime, the most important clues are often furnished by medicine. When Dr. Gonzales went to work in the newly created office of medical examiner in 1918, it was common enough for crimes of violence to go undetected, and not uncommon for sudden deaths to result in criminal charges against innocent people. The teeming, sprawling city was switching over from the antiquated coroner system* to one requiring that every violent or unexplained death be checked by medical sleuths with modern scientific devices. Pathologist Gonzales helped to build the department from scratch...
Most of life is spent waiting for the next meal, and working on a play shares with few other activities the uncommon happiness of being lived in the present, and relished as an experience not only in retrospect, with most academic achievement, but in the joyful labor day by day. Academic work is usually done alone, but in working on a play life assumes the character it has at its beat: a cooperative endeavor by many people, joined by a common interest working toward a common goal...
Infantile paralysis was noted as uncommon but regular and widespread (and therefore endemic) by Britain's Dr. Michael Underwood in 1784. Sweden had the first reported epidemic of polio in 1887. Seven years later came the first U.S. epidemic, in Vermont's Otter Creek Valley. Around Rutland and Proctor there was no fewer than 119 paralytic cases. By brilliant horse & buggy epidemiology, Dr. Charles S. Caverly concluded that the old endemic infantile paralysis and the new epidemic polio were one and the same disease...
...main reasons workers gave for liking Swift & Co. were that it provided steady work, took good care of the sick and aged. That workers expressed allegiance to Swift & Co. did not mean that they really liked their jobs or had no grievances. Positive "pride of work" was uncommon, Father Purcell found. Exceptional was the man who said: "I got one of the toughest jobs in the soap house. Work with lye. They say I'm one of the only ones who can do it . . . See these scars on my arms . . . ? I'm interested in my work...
...very different ways; Mr. Hughes by a weak and half-hearted reversion to an old musical style and form and Mr. Bavicchi by an aggressive rejection of the ideals of melodic and textural beauty evolved in the subsequent history of this style. Such a rejection is of course not uncommon in contemporary music but some glimmer of compensation is expected in such cases. I saw none in Mr. Bavicchi's Sonata for Two Pianos. Passages of elementary and conventional sentimentality were occasionally introduced only to be brutally transformed into sequences of unrelenting harshness. Abrupt shifts of mood and rhythm marked...