By dying of amebic dysentery which she had contracted in Chicago last year, Texas Guinan dramatically made the nation aware of an insidious epidemic which plagued the first summer of the Century of Progress (TIME. Nov. 20). Everyone who had been in Chicago, particularly everyone who had eaten in the Congress or Auditorium hotels there, worried for months about a tiny blob called Entamcba histolytica. Doctors would advise them to continue to worry. For, although as an aftermath of the Chicago dysentery outbreak, Soo were known to be infected and 50 to have...
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