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...liberated G.I.s, of whom 40% were suffering from severe malnutrition, and another 40% were undernourished. Only eight died (a few others were killed by kindness when sympathetic soldiers and civilians threw them indigestible foods as they rode westward from Germany). Wounded and post-operative patients, fed this same bland mixture, were up & about in a third less time than had been customary. Pollack's prediction: the new diet will end doctors' traditional tolerance for patients who dawdle over their convalescence. Furthermore, adds he optimistically, it tastes wonderful - just like ice cream...
Communist Boss Rakosi knew that the solution of these problems depended on Moscow, rather than Washington and London. Whenever the discussion touched Hungary's relations with Russia, middle-of-the-roader Nagy skirted skillfully, Communist Rakosi smiled a bland, gold-toothed smile...
Many editors are aware of W.N.U. chiefly as a Chicago editorial office whose boss, Farnham Dudgeon, helps them fill their papers. Dudgeon steers his writers away from controversy, into innocuous, bland writing that will offend neither Republican nor Democratic editors. For papers which get their W.N.U. service ready-printed, and thus have no advance editorial control over its content, he takes special pains to handle religion, politics, etc. so that nothing positive is said. The most popular feature is the "improved" Sunday-school lesson written by a Moody Institute...
...surrealists, who were more noisy than numerous, beauty was just the stuff that dreams are made of. Salvador Dali still led the somnambulating flock, with pictures brilliant, boneless and as bland as the fried eggs he claims to have seen while he was still in his mother's womb...
...Marshall, 44, a onetime pulp-fictionist whose earlier bedroom gambol, Kitty, was turned into a bland costume piece by Hollywood, wrote her first novel (30 pages) at seven. Its conclusion: "He gazed into her eyes and said, 'Will you marry me?' Only the stars heard the answer as they crept under the bushes." No such childish restraint mars Duchess Hotspur...