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...microscopic mites, much like U.S. chiggers, commonly live in the damp ground around the roots of the 10-to 20-foot kunai grass which covers many Southwest Pacific lowlands. After being bitten, a man usually notices nothing wrong for over a week. Then a sore develops at the bite, followed by fever, headache and swollen glands near the bite. Next come a rash, temperatures up to 105°, restlessness or apathy, perhaps delirium, pneumonia (20% of cases), temporary deafness, constipation, bronchitis, vomiting, heart inflammation. It is severe heart damage which causes most of the deaths. In other cases, the fever...
Lost &; Found. In Maplewood, N.J., Patrolman Herman Schmidt brawled with three motorists, had his ear bitten off, lost some teeth, his badge and gun. Later in the night police, searching with floodlights, found Schmidt's ear, rushed it to the hospital, where it was sewed back...
...leathery, hard-bitten General Joseph W. Stilwell went the final practical proof of what the textbooks had told him 40 years before at West Point: there is more to war than just fighting. Last week "Uncle Joe," hero of Burma and the U.S.'s No. 1 soldier in China, was summarily relieved and ordered home...
Nine alumni started the foundation in 1925, which has no direct connection with the university. Each put in $100. They picked as president a crack patent lawyer, Chicago's grey-maned, hard-bitten George Haight. Since then, Haight has decided which companies will be licensed to use the Steenbock patents (each pays royalties, averaging 10% and less); how they shall advertise their vitamin products; what fields each could take. Example: Standard Brands could irradiate yeast, but nothing else. In all, the foundation has piled up a fund of $9,000,000. which eventually will go to the university...
F.F.I. Colonel Rol-Tanguy is a lean, hard-bitten Parisian who, in the days when he used to be a boilermaker, was known simply as Tanguy. He became Rol when he headed the French section of the International Brigade in Spain. As Colonel Rol-Tanguy he headed the F.F.I, in the Ile-de-France region (Paris plus the Departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise). Last August, during the battle of Paris, the Swedish Minister and a French military delegate negotiated an armistice with the German garrison. But Colonel Rol-Tanguy denounced it, ordered his Maquis to continue street fighting...