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...last week 2,000 psychiatrists at the 100th meeting of the American Psychiatric Association heard some startling figures from the Army's Colonel William Claire Menninger (brother of famed Psychiatrist Karl Menninger). Since Pearl Harbor the Army has turned down 1,340,000 men for neuropsychiatric causes, has discharged 216,000. These figures would be even higher if the men in Army neuropsychiatric wards were included...
...While White House reporters stared incredulously, Montana's bitterly anti-Roosevelt Senator Burton K. Wheeler walked in for his first White House visit since the spring of 1940. After a 45-minute chat, Burt Wheeler emerged, told newsmen that he and the President had discussed the coming 100th anniversary celebration of Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph.* Burt Wheeler added: "I'm against a fourth term, or a third term, for any President." But diplomatic relations had at least been reestablished...
...ship rolling up to his dispersal station, the Mild & Bitter, had just made history: she was back from her 100th combat mission. Sergeant Stuart, her crew chief, had sweated out every one of the 100 for her; now he would check her over and get her ready for Mission 101. Mild & Bitter thus joined the select company of famed warplanes of World War II-planes like the embattled Fortresses Memphis Belle and Hell's Angels, and the R.A.F.'s Lancaster S for Sugar...
...first combat flight, last July 28, she led a sweep over Abbeville; the 100th mission was to bomb an airfield at Evreux, near Paris. In between she had taken the targets as they came; power plants, E-boat pens, air bases, all around France up to Holland and back. She still had her original Pratt & Whitney 2,000 h.p. engines. No one had picked any soft spots for the ship, even when she neared her record. Her last two missions were done between dawn and sunset, her last four in 36 hours...
...first the case seemed routine to detectives from the West 100th Street station. They got her description for the routine form which the police call "DD-13." For the Missing Persons Bureau, which seeks 9,000 people a year, turns up 8,900 of them, alive or dead, before twelve months are out; and 80% come back by themselves, 50% within 48 hours...