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...lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected to be cast. To have to buy shiploads of pencils from Capitalist countries in order to hold "The Most Democratic Election" was a dire expedient against which Soviet Leaders were still set as a matter of prestige. To help get enough pencils for the election, the State last week was having Soviet pupils and Soviet teachers in numerous schools do their writing and arithmetic entirely without lead pencils...
...thinks that today the Kremlin prefers to have in Moscow diplomatic and other representatives who are sufficiently Capitalist not to worry about whether Stalin has betrayed the Revolution: "The Kremlin . . . outwardly pretending satisfaction over the appointment of William Christian Bullitt as the first American plenipotentiary, actually viewed him with dire misgivings, only too well borne out by his subsequent withdrawal in a mood of tight-lipped disappointment. Mr. Bullitt's successor, a corporation lawyer with lots of money [Ambassador Joseph E. Davies], unencumbered by pro-Soviet leanings, was far more to the Kremlin's taste...
...Walter B. Cannon put himself on record on this matter by referring to: "The quick insight of the faculty and of the student members into the dire need of the wounded men who have fought for the legitimate government of Spain...
...have just read and observed the free publicity Slurring Subscriber "Doc" Joseph Sullivan from this city has received in yourcolumns [TIME, Aug. 9, p. 6], after "dire threats on his part of canceling subscription etc., etc. Without intimidation might I also hope to get these few lines published as being one of your many subscribers who will by now have drawn your attention to the fact that "Oscar" in photograph on p. 44, Aug. 9 issue, is a pike and not a pickerel, as the accompanying article mentions...
...anxious to know whether or not the orders for such emergency treatment actually came from a physician. Journals of medicine as well as standard surgical texts specifically advise against such application of greasy materials to second or third degree burns, even in dire emergency. Aside from some easing of the pain, the only effect this treatment could have would be harmful. Physicians know that a burned area is not greatly different from any other wound, and as such, is very easily infected by impromptu therapy from sympathetic onlookers...