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...later turned to the ministry. "I don't know why," he says. "It is just one of those things." After 23 years of pastoral work (chiefly at Buffalo's fashionable Delaware Avenue Church, Detroit's big Central Church), he was chosen a Bishop, assigned to far-off Bangalore, India. There Bishop Smith diversified his episcopal duties by shooting tigers. The skin of the first tiger that glared back at Bangalore's Bishop now reposes in rug form on Bishop Smith's living-room floor in Cincinnati's outlying Linwood section. Bishop Smith drilled...
...Still another far-off printing of TIME for still another A.E.F. is scheduled to begin almost any day now-so some week soon I will probably have another story to tell you about how the native contractors said it couldn't be done-and then went ahead...
Last week its faculty of eight was working overtime, with 258 undergraduates and a constantly varying number of postgraduates. The fear that inspired this activity is that U.S. citizens, returning from far-off fronts, may bring home a host of new, dangerous or repulsive diseases. Among the less familiar ones: African sleeping sickness, relapsing fever (a periodic fever transmitted by bedbugs), schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis (all three, parasitic infestations), yaws (a type of stubborn skin sore indigenous to the tropics). Says Dr. Faust: fortunately, most tropical epidemics are "not like flash floods, but like slowly mounting river stages from spring thaws...
...troops, rubbed elbows with some more of the world's great, had seen places under enemy attack. But it was of the men she had seen and talked with that she wanted to tell. As one mother speaking to other mothers she reported on her trip to the far-off places of the Pacific. Highlights of her report...
Delights of the Poet is a medium-size canvas representing the haunting mem ory of an Italian town square. The picture seems deserted of humanity, a stage set standing in uneasy expectation of some unsettling occurrence. One white, far-off figure accentuates the loneliness...