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...Belgians. In the London tabloid Daily Sketch, which is more given to scandal than to politics, appeared a political piece. It said that Belgium, in exchange for certain guarantees, might become a member of the Commonwealth. The story was a slightly garbled version of a speech by Antoine Delfosse, Belgian Minister of Information. Other Belgian officials, who knew they could make no such bargain until their people were free to approve, or disapprove, were horrified...
...skin-grafting operation was a bloody business. Each new stitch to hold the big skin-patch in place added to the bleeding and decreased the chances of a take-oozing blood may keep a graft from sticking. A masked woman by the table, Belgian-born Dr. Machteld E. Sano, was thinking fast as she watched the needle. And she got an idea: why not "glue" a graft in place with such animal-chemical substances as are used in tissue culture (TIME, June 13, 1938), such stuff as keeps bits of chicken heart and other organs alive outside the body...
...shiver ran through London last week. The great city, which had come through the blitz without an epidemic, had an outbreak of flu. The disease was mild but it spread like wildfire. Thousands of offices worked at half-staff, the Belgian Ambassador was sick abed, 100 London Bus Company employes and a dozen M.P.s stayed home. And in other parts of Britain the fever raged-the Bristol transport services and many war plants were partially paralyzed. The last report (for the week ending Nov. 27), from cities comprising half Britain's population, showed 375 deaths, more than three times...
Paris Again. All of these infractions have been committed by British. Canadian, Australian, Free Belgian, Polish, Free French and other groups in Britain. The popular habit of bundling such complaints into a blanket indictment of the U.S. fighting man really means that the trouble is something else...
...White Russian refugee, Huene lived in the Paris of the '20s. He was a movie extra, teashop waiter, once went to Poland as a railway-tie inspector for the Belgian Government. In Paris he finally took up his profession, working for Vogue. He speedily established himself as a master of deluxe and diaphanous effects. He moved to the U.S. in 1935, when he began photographing for Harper's Bazaar...