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...Burma Road. There U.S. ferry planes from General Elmer Edward Adler's India-based Army Air Forces refuel. The closing of the Burma Road itself had clamped a terrible constriction on China's thin lines of supply. Japa nese occupation of Yunnan would draw the cord tighter, could even throttle China...
...nearest doctor is miles away. Before Baby Rufus was born, Father Rich shed quarts of perspiration over a handbook called If Baby Comes Ahead of the Doctor. Baby did. Father Rich tied the umbilical cord with a piece of old cord, expertly greased the infant. Said he: "After all the pistons I've oiled...
Cutting Connections. Purpose of the operation is to sever most of the nerve connections between the prefrontal lobes and the thalamus. The thalamus is lower, nearer the spinal cord. This part of the brain is widely believed to be the seat of emotions-fear, rage, lust, sorrow, other purely animal instincts. All animals have a thalamus, but the higher animals-above all, man-developed superimposed layers of brain tissue which exercise some control over the thalamus...
This bacterial disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes enclosing the spinal cord and brain, flares up at irregular intervals, especially during wars. British cases soared from 1,500 in 1939 to a record 12,500 in 1940. In World War I the disease hit Army camps in the U.S., France and Britain. Relatively few (5,839) U.S. soldiers were stricken, but the disease gave Army doctors a disproportionate amount of trouble-as it is doing now. "Certain peculiarities of the disease-the apparent lack of interconnection between cases, the mysterious manner of spread .. . the ineffectiveness of control measures...
Died. Laura Hope Crews, 62, veteran character actress; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. She spent most of her life playing the parts of bird-minded flibbertigibbets. She had a thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame...