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...Milch's military colleagues like him. He is more a business go-getter than a military man of the German pattern. Instead of sternness he has a bland, baby-faced smoothness. Some super-Nazis still view with suspicion his birth, despite his mother's affidavit that he was illegitimate. Her husband, who gave the child his name, was a Jew. But Hitler likes and trusts him highly, gave him a gold Nazi Party pin (great favor...
...Society for the Preservation & Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. No mere anything-for-a-laugh letterhead organization, the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. takes itself fairly seriously. Heart and founder of the organization is its Permanent Third Assistant Temporary Vice Chairman, bland, round-faced Tulsa oilman Owen Clifton ("O. C.") Cash. Long addicted to informal harmonization with friends, Barbershopper Cash applied in May 1938 for a corporate charter in Oklahoma, proclaimed: "In this age of dictators and government control of everything, about the only privilege guaranteed by the Bill of Rights not in some...
...lung and brain abscesses, abdominal infections like peritonitis, a solution of chlorophyll in salt water was applied directly to the infected surfaces, either in wet dressings or through soft rubber tubes. "Indolent" ulcers and "weeping" skin diseases were treated with a paste of chlorophyll and lanolin. Since chlorophyll is bland and soothing, said Dr. Gruskin, it has a great advantage over many standard antiseptics, which are harsh and irritating. Even "floods" of chlorophyll, he continued, do no harm to living tissues...
...Communist intellectuals, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was more than a gentleman - he was a bourgeois Bolshevik. He exuded respectability, which - next to an aura of romantic criminality - is the quality middle-class Marxists most prize. Was not his cousin Biographer Lytton Strachey, whose bland ironies and subacid wit had done as much as any one intellectual force to sap his generation's faith in education, the church, the state? Cousin Lytton had knocked the notions of pre-Communist intellectuals into a half-cocked hat so successfully that Cousin John had only to pick up the pieces...
James Norman Hall, who collaborated with Charles Nordhoff on the memorable Bounty books (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island), has struck off a happy character in his bland, blue-eyed old surgeon. If its 18th-Century flavor is not distinguished, neither is it strained, and the same goes for Warren Chappell's pen-&-ink illustrations. Now 53, with a son of 14, lean Norman Hall still lives at Papeete, Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff went to be at peace after fighting through the last war. Tahiti being a French possession, their remoteness from...