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...other episodes in Mister Roberts are just as simple-a quarrel between two roommates, the achievement of gonorrhea by a seaman at an apparently barren island-but they are told with aptitude and humor. Author Heggen, 27, who now writes for the Reader's Digest, served aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, at Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, thereby seeing somewhat more action at sea than the Reluctant...
...beautiful as it was big, Rubens needed a little help. One Manhattan art scholar currently spends most of his hours trying to prove that one of Rubens' assistants deserves most of the credit for Rubens' best stuff. The scholar, Rogers Bordley (Foreign Editor of Art Digest), contends that Rubens was more a fast-talking agent than he was a fast-working artist. He kept a crackerjack stable of less renowned painters in his Antwerp mansion, "finished" and signed their efforts as well...
...unfilled dental cavity is an open door to polio. So conclude Neurologist Hans Reese of the University of Wisconsin and Dentist John G. Frisch of Madison, Wis. in the latest issue of Dental Digest...
...Bacteriologist de Kruif has a Ph.D., no M.D.) were a stock joke at the A.M.A. Convention last fortnight. Last week in the A.M.A. Journal Federal Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger viewed with alarm De Kruif's latest discovery: Demerol ("God's Own Medicine-1946," Reader's Digest for June), a painkilling drug which acts much like morphine but is not, said De Kruif, habit-forming...
...camphor-phenol treatment for athlete's foot, which led many Digest readers to experiment with corrosive self-medication. Result: ulcerated feet...