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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their warning dovetails neatly with the medical belief that tonsillectomies and tooth extractions are dangerous during polio season. Reason: many polio infections enter the body through exposed nerves in the nose or mouth, travel along nerves to the spinal cord, where their ravages begin. "The rich nerve supply of the dental pulp offers a most formidable invasion point for the virus," explain Drs. Reese and Frisch. Some of their evidence...
Reclassification of all 1-C veterans who have not served six or more months on active duty since September, 1940, exclusive of time served in military educational programs, will begin soon at Draft Board 47, the "Harvard" draft board, Mary E. Cabral, a member of the board, said yesterday...
Bidault's opening speech was cautiously optimistic. Said he: "We have all suffered in trying to banish [war]. Gentlemen, it is now time to begin to succeed...
...between the lines of baby talk, Brewsie and Willie is a serious lecture on the postwar responsibilities of America's younger generation. When Brewsie and Willie (and other G.I.s named Peter and Lawrence, Nurses Pauline and Janet) begin their improbable discussions, they are full of beans and America-first; when they emerge a hundred pages later, they are more respectful of Europeans, less enthusiastic about themselves...
...Lantern. In bombed, defeated Tokyo, five dinner-jacketed musicians in a sweltering dance hall last week struggled through I Can't Begin to Tell You. The saxophone wavered, the drums came in too strong; couples danced slowly and solemnly...