Medicine: Sic

General Adolphe Eugene Marie Sicé (pronounced See-say), High Commissioner of Free French Africa, stopped off in Manhattan on his way to London last week and received encomiums on his stout work in freeing French Equatorial Africa from the rule of Vichy. Earlier stout work by the General was not so much in the news. But it was flies—specifically the tsetse fly—from which General Sicé had first set his black people free.

Tall, rugged General Sicé, a doctor before he was a soldier, was for many years head of the Pasteur Institute at Brazzaville....

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