Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...umpteenth time Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian nurse who developed the Kenny treatment for infantile paralysis, last week threatened to go home. Her running feud with orthodox medical men has long enlivened the press (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943; June 26). And her forthright disposition has earned her the nicknames "The Duchess" and "Madam Queen." Not satisfied when doctors accept her methods, she insists that they also accept her theories-theories that many experts say lack proof...
GREEN ARMOR-Osmar White-Norton ($3). An Australian reporter's account of the "terrible laboratory" of Japs and jungles in which our Allied forces learned to fight. Straightforward and informative...
Nobody gave German measles a second thought until 1941, when N. M. Gregg of Australia noticed that many babies whose mothers had had the disease early in pregnancy were born with congenital cataracts. Two years later a group of Australian doctors reported on some 50 babies of mothers who had had German measles during pregnancy: they found defects in all the children whose mothers were ill in the first two months of pregnancy, in about half whose mothers fell ill in the third month, in two out of 16 whose mothers got it later. One mother with a defective child...
...Left Right? In the South Pacific, an Australian unit scheduled to take over the ground defense of an American base thoughtfully learned to drive on the right-hand side of the road instead of the left, ran into a roaring traffic jam on arrival because U.S. troops had thoughtfully learned to drive on the left...
Allied censorship had successfully covered up the identity of the Japs' prisoner. The fact that Australian-born William H. Donald was known to be a prisoner was never mentioned. His relatives in Australia made no attempt to communicate with him. But news of his capture eventually reached his captors anyhow...