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...Arab-Jewish riots of 1936 in Jerusalem, Dr. Edward G. Joseph of Hadassah Hospital had many a patient whose abdomen was badly shot up. Dr. Joseph did not resort to drainage. Instead, he operated in a blood bath, stitched up his patients' intestines, closed their abdomens without further ado. When the victims recovered like clockwork, with no hint of peritonitis, he decided that free outpouring of blood in the peritoneal cavity might be more help than harm...
...McEwan, Mrs. McEwan and Harold D. Hill-had a good deal of trouble just getting visas to reach the site. After they got there they were officially advised to go home. When they decided to stay and cabled Chicago for funds, officials shrugged, obligingly transmitted the cable without further ado. In the message they also dolefully revealed that at the top of the mound, which they had to cut through, were the remains of some 70.000 human bodies, apparently buried there after fighting or massacres in World...
Editor Edmands took one look at the Consul's letter. Without more ado, he slapped the letter into bold type, printed it on page i. Managing Editor Harold F. Wheeler dashed off an indignant wire to Washington. On the editorial page of the Traveler, Joe Toye reprinted the offending editorial. Next day he added: "Hitler 'is insulted in uncivilized expressions.' So what...
...play tells of an old maid (Jessie Royce Landis) who gets involved in a dippy romance with a patent-medicine salesman (Walter Huston). In the midst of her flutterings, a vast family of Okies calmly moves in on her and refuses to budge. After much ado, the old maid's house burns down and everybody makes for the residence of a Greek wrestler, where the Spirit of Love triumphs immoderately...
...France last month much was ado about an article in TIME appraising the Paris press. TIME had said out loud what many Parisians had for years been saying in lively whispers. Publisher Henry Robinson Luce, holidaying abroad, stepped off a train at St. Lazare to find that he had been sued for 5,000,000 francs by the Paris Press Association. But France's still democratic Government took no action, and TIME remained on French newsstands. Publisher Luce expressed regrets for TIME'S too-general indictment of the Parisian press. Fortnight later the Government, in an effort...