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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lungs by the mustard-gas vapor that goes through the rubber. The fact that rubberized fabric is used in military gas masks has probably served for the foundation of the A.W.V.S. fallacy. But the gas mask is of an entirely different grade of rubber and is quite thick in comparison to rubber underwear...
...Comparison with figures for last September would indicate that 259 more men have entered the class of 1946 than registered last year. At the same time, however, upperclass enrollment will be slashed by an estimated 192 and no opinions were ventured on the number of men who might leave during the year...
Written for a production at Catholic University, "Count Me In" should have stayed there. On Broadway it falls flat and can hardly bear comparison with a Freedley, Wiman or Abbott musical. At any moment you expect someone to come out with a crack about the Dean of Women's red woolies, but you have to be satisfied with the humor of a Back Bay sitting room. Compensating for the poor dialogue is some top-notch dancing (Hal Leroy's tapping is the best thing in the show), an original story and a couple of good performances...
Relatively restrained by comparison, the International Student Assembly convened last week in Washington with 365 delegates from 56 countries. Like most student conferences, this one was noteworthy for: 1) the vagueness of its talk; 2) the large number of students in their 30s. Unlike the others, it included a group of delegates with a dramatic record in action. Among them: Chinese Cinemactress Yung Wang, who escaped the Japs at Hong Kong by feigning feeblemindedness; Wing Commander Scott Maiden, who shot down a Nazi bomber at Dieppe; Lieut. Johannes Woltjer, veteran fighter in Holland and The Netherlands East Indies. Above...
...even the worst treated among them admitted he had got off easy by comparison with John Benjamin ("J.B.") Powell, editor since 1917 of the China Weekly Review. In a Manhattan hospital, 56-year-old Editor Powell lay horribly emaciated, crippled for life. He had lost all ten toes as a result of freezing and gangrene in Shanghai's notorious Bridgehouse Prison...