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...Burma-born Gordon Seagrave of the American Baptist Mission (TIME, April 13). Seagrave called to the British liaison officer: "Try to get us some food. I have not a bite in the house. Some of these soldiers have not eaten for three days." As I went out the British Friends' ambulance units were bringing in more Chinese wounded in American jeeps; all of them would be handled by Seagrave, who was the only surgeon. The house was full of wounded. When he buried two dead, under the moon, he said: "Now that the shooting has started, we have...
Planted wherever lettuce will grow, celtuce grows with beanshoot speed. Its pale green stalk is tastiest eaten raw with salt. Best way to cook it: boiled, seasoned with salt & pepper, served with butter or "vinaigrette; or baked au gratin. The young leaves qualify for salads...
...seen men face danger and die with a nonchalance I shall never forget. For five days they had not eaten or slept. . . . They waved us on with cheery smiles, and as we passed them the colonel's parting words were still in our ears: 'We expect they'll come back to give us another pasting; you boys had better push...
...design, drawn by the artist, has been dug out by the corrosive action of nitric acid. He starts by giving his copper plate a coat of beeswax, scratching his design in the soft wax with a needle. Copper, exposed where the wax has been scratched away, is then eaten away by acid. Parts still covered with beeswax remain uneaten. When the acid bath is over, remaining wax is rubbed off and plate is ready for printing. In Drypoints, which look like etchings to the uninitiated, the artist scratches his design right on the metal, uses...
...found. Unfortunately, the "unity" of the American people, a fourth of-July catchword which means exactly nothing can be sorely disarranged by the sort of subversive literature which the F. B. I. still allows to circulate. We can blindfold our eyes and follow the example of France, which was eaten away from the inside by termites unbeknownst to everyone until the German juggernaut pushed her over like alehouse of cards. Or else we can wake up to the fact that allowing these publications to continue is a mockery of the freedom of the press, a travesty of the principle...