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...Army; have been since November. I have very little time for reading, but I manage to digest TIME each week. In reading the April 14 issue, I ran across a very interesting letter from Reader Kemper...
...Chandler seldom counts calories, is never finicky. He claims that the flesh of rattlesnakes is "delicious and nutritious," that "grasshoppers, caterpillars and termites . . . afford wholesome food if there is no acquired aversion." Besides these odd chips of information, Dr. Chandler's book (The Eater's Digest, Farrar & Rinehart; $2.75) is packed with practical discussions on such things as digestion, nutritional diseases, bellyaches, diet during pregnancy, ravenous children, vitamins (if you don't like spinach, don't eat it, but be sure to buy your vitamins in the drugstore...
...having opened the Red Sea (about a two-month voyage from New York) to its shipping, having committed itself a step further in the Battle of the Atlantic by turning over ten anti-rumrunning cutters, having attached Greenland to its sphere of defense (see p. 23), might digest well: "It is," said the Prime Minister, "of course very hazardous to try to forecast in what direction or directions Hitler will employ his military machine in the present year. ..." Winston Churchill paused. He was pale and tired-looking, and his delivery this day was strangely halting; but his words were measured...
...forces, in the Albanian mountains with the Greeks. He had inspected ordnance, shipping, signal corps, maintenance depots. He had slept in sleeping bags, on desert sands, on the jogging backs of mules. He had talked to kings, prime ministers, generals, admirals. As a lawyer he was well equipped to digest what he heard. As a soldier (he commanded New York's "Fighting 69th" Regiment in World War I, won the Congressional Medal of Honor, the D.S.C. and D.S.M.) he was well equipped to put together what he saw. As a reporter he was a natural. But no newspaper...
...just another way of describing the Machine Age, and the fact is certainly nothing new or startling. Sociology courses should set up certain agreed-on hypotheses, and then proceed to feed them to students in the form of practical problems. If the theories can be applies, the student will digest them; if not, they're not worth digesting anyway...