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...When Madame Helena Sikorska (widow of Poland's late great Premier and commander in chief) and 15 leading Poles protested, Prime Minister Winston Churchill fumed. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden lectured Premier Mikolajczyk. But R.A.F. flyers from Italy made a 1,750-mile round trip to drop a pathetic driblet of supplies to the besieged. Polish paratroops, idle in Scotland, had to remain idle in Scotland...
Chicken and Ice Cream. In a battle like Saipan, where casualties are heavy, hospital ships cannot evacuate more than 20 or 30% of the wounded. The rest, except for the driblet evacuated by air, return to rear areas aboard transports, which are usually crowded and cannot hope to have the exceptional facilities of a hospital ship...
Pantothenic Acid, apparently the one essential to the growth of all living substances, has been isolated by Professor Roger John Williams of Corvallis, Ore. All he possesses weighs less than half a drop of water. Yet that driblet is enough to lead to the synthesis of the potent stuff. Dr. Williams believes that pantothenic acid, a tiny amount of which has a remarkably stimulating effect on the growth of plants and single-celled animals, may be the long-hinted clue to why cancers grow so wildly...
...arrive annually at his offices were treated is fairly as possible. They went in turn to a bright young woman, to an elderly cultured man, to a youthful fiction editor, to Managing Editor Hugh Leamy, finally to Editor Blossom. The first four had authority only to reject. From the driblet of manuscripts that got safely by them, Editor Blossom bought 125 to 150 a year. Yet, sometimes Editor Blossom wondered if perhaps he and his staff were not unconsciously swayed in favor of authors with money-making names. Three months ago he started an experiment. In the magazine...
...George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Mr. MacDonald accepted and probably forced the resignation of Lord Lloyd. It was hoped that the Prime Minister's soothing proclamation soon afterward (TIME, Aug. 19) would reassure Egyptians and dispose them to wait until Britannia is ready to dole out their freedom, driblet by driblet. In asking for the whole bowl of porridge at once, last week, rash Prime Minister Nahas Pasha laid himself open to being considered at best an Oliver Twist. The original Oliver, as all remember, was locked up for a week in a "dark and solitary room...