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Every 40 Seconds. "It's a kind of madness with me, this removing cataracts," said grizzled Dr. Mathra Dass Pahwa, 71, last week. But it was a madness full of method. Local doctors believe that cataracts and other eye troubles are commoner in the Bihar area than anywhere on earth. Just out of medical school in Lahore back in 1902, Dr. Dass determined to do something about it. His first eye operation, he remembers, was "terrible." But in three years, he had improved considerably. "I spent my own money sending people out to villages to bring me cataract patients...
...Dass ich sehe, wer mich besiegt Und wer meine Uhr gekriegt!" (". . . That I may see who conquered me And who got my watch!") The audience roared, clapped, stamped, and the conductor had to oblige with two encores of the passage. The handful of Russians in the auditorium, well-aware that their habit of appropriating any watch they can lay their hands on is a pet German peeve, were more hurt than annoyed. Said one much-decorated Red warrior after the concert: "I did not think it was at all funny. If these people only knew that I shall be able...
...Dass ihr Herze Feuer faengt...
...Hour. In the dawn's early light, Bombay's police commissioner arrested Gandhi at the home of Ghanshyam Dass Birla, a wealthy Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy...
Gerald M. Alter '41, Mason City, la.; Adelbert Ames '43, Hanover, N. H.; David L. Anderson '41, Portland, Ore.; Ralph A. Anderson '42, Minneapolis, Minn.; Marvin G. Barrett '42, Dea Molnes, la.; John H. Dass, Jr. '49, Evanston, III.; Fred Benyamin '41, Columbia, S. C.; Charles P. Berger, Jr. '41, Jackson, Mich.; Thomas W. Blazey '42, Euolid, O:; William J. Bobear '43, Upper Darby, Pa.; Charles Brounig '42, Indianapolis, Ind.; Robert W. Broge '42, Cleveland, O.; John W. Buddenberg '43, Gothenburg, Nebr.; Curtis A. Bush '43, Davenport...