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...connective tissue, waiting again for withdrawal, cutting through the muscles circularly, and finally sawing the bone. The old practice of covering the bone with flaps of skin has been abandoned; the stump is sprinkled with sulfanilamide, left exposed so that there is no closed pocket for bacteria to breed in. Later on, the skin is pulled down over the bone...
Franz Werfel is a second-flight European man of letters with the schooled competence of his breed and with a reverence for the human spirit which too many of his literary superiors lack. In this novel about the miracle of Lourdes, which is an act of piety transcending blood and creed ("I am not a Catholic but a Jew"), he brings that reverence into clean, spacious focus...
Bearded, barefooted Jonas and his uncounted half-breed offspring are always going to earn a living "when we get twisted around." Their problem is gasoline. It costs money. Without it they can neither fish for bonita nor make Jonas' ancient clapboard truck run. When a sailor son (Jon Hall) comes home with a prize U.S. fighting cock, Jonas wagers the family furniture, the vanilla crop, anything at hand, on the fortune-restoring bird. The result is the blackest day in the history of the Tuttles...
...Remember, we are the Anzac breed. Our men stormed Gallipoli. They swept through the Libyan Desert. They were the 'Rats of Tobruk.' . . . They were the men who fought under bitter, sarcastic, pugnacious [General Henry] Gordon Bennett down Malaya, and were still fighting when the surrender of Singapore came...
...contact with the injuries involved such as might be gained by periodic visits to Boston hospitals. Work in a hospital is an essential part of the training of every nurse or interne, and a first-aid training course which never shows a real wound is not likely to breed men who can recognize the injury with which they have to deal and can attack it with efficient objectivity...