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...Reader's Digest addicts at MGM are usually more careful. In two respects, their latest offering has proved offensive. First, there are two accepted ways of looking at the war through the movies. Film producers have either gone off the sentimental deep end, as in "Since you Went Away," or they have shown war with the personal toughness of Hemingway, as the British and Russians have done consistently and an Hollywood has done in such pictures as "Purple Heart," "Sahara," and the service releases. "Music for Million a" takes a rather careless view...
...forth last week by two students of Russian and Chinese affairs-Max Eastman, onetime Communist editor, and J. B. Powell, former editor of Shanghai's liberal China Press, who lost part of both feet as a result of mistreatment in a Japanese prison camp. In Reader's Digest they wrote...
While the Nazis were systematically starving their captives. Allied chemists perfected a special restorative food for humans who are so starved that they cannot digest ordinary fare. The food, of powdered amino acids, is made from milk, meat, eggs, beans and fish, and is called protein hydrolysate. It may be taken in solution either by mouth or by vein. A six-ton shipment, made in the U.S., was on the way to The Netherlands last week...
Everything that medical skill could give them they received. They were first washed in sitdown bathtubs and then, clean and in fresh clothes, they were put to bed in sunlit rooms with flowers. Whole blood was transfused into the emaciated bodies, nourishment was injected intravenously when they could not digest strengthening soups. But more than anything else, the simple fact of humane care and decent surroundings had its effect. In the first two days after the 120th moved in, only two men died...
...great quantities of salt are required to digest "Enchanted Cottage's" elfin consomme, for it is subtly spiced with acting that is something distinct from the sleep-walking with which most productions are content...