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...Army name. Commandant for the last 16 months has been Major General Leven C. Allen, a non-West Pointer who led a machine-gun company in the A.E.F., has a thumping reputation as a teaching soldier. Head of the academic department is Brigadier General George H. Weems, a hard-bitten Tennesseean, who got his nickname of "Daddy" as oldest man in West Point's 1917 class. Both know T.I.S. from early days when they lived in tents, handled 750 students a year...
...outfit. The goggles are for protection against the deadly ringhals, which not only bites but spits venom six feet with tobacco-chewer's accuracy. Two of the men have been hit in the eye by ringhals (bathing the eyes with milk is a sure cure); all have been bitten at one time or another. They take lightly the threatening antics of the puff adder, but have plenty of respect for the swift black mamba, most dreaded of Af rican snakes, whose bite can kill in five minutes...
...South African Institute, which processes the dried venom received from snake catchers, produces antivenin, has sent off thousands of doses all over the world. (Puff-adder venom is also used as a coagulant in hemophilia.) A quick injection of serum has saved the life of many a soldier bitten by ugly horned vipers in the West African desert, bush-masters in Central America, kraits and king cobras on the Burma front and mambas in South Africa...
JOURNEY AMONG WARRIORS - Eve Curie - Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). Amonth before the U.S. went to war, Eve Curie took off for 40,000 miles of United Nations fronts, key cities, outposts. She talked to R.A.F. pilots, battle-bitten Free Frenchmen, Italian and German prisoners, Russian women, army doctors, machinists, a ballerina, Mohandas Gandhi, General Sir Archibald Wawell, Sir Stafford Cripps and Jawaharlal Nehru ( who described his career as "the popular and widely practiced profession of gaol-going"). Asked Eve Curie:" How do you react to the term Dominion Status? "Answered Nehru: " It makes me slightly seasick...
Addis Ababa is a mixture of the old and the new. British officialdom marches jauntily about the Italian-built offices. Masses of unemployed move aimlessly about the streets. Flea-bitten donkeys mourn past, laden with Ethiopian ladies under umbrellas. Occasionally a slicked-up Ethiopian sport in an appropriated, yellow Alfa-Romeo roadster splits the crowds...