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Leno Yard was born 20 years ago in New York's teeming, fetid Harlem. Ambitious, he went .to big (7,693 pupils) DeWitt Clinton High School, where he went out for track, and studied hard. He graduated in 1941, clerked for a while in a bookstore. He wanted to help in the war. So he enrolled for a four-month course in machine-shop work at the National Youth Administration's Quoddy training center near Eastport, Me., site of the defunct Passamaquoddy power project...
Problems of health mounted with the hours spent in the rank, fetid air underground. Few shelters had adequate heat, light or latrines; most were dank and unventilated at best. Children slept with their parents under blankets left underground for weeks on end. Milk for babies could not be heated if it was brought in. Nightly inspection trips were made by doctors and Red Cross nurses, but medical attention was still makeshift. One shelter doctor, who worked at a children's hospital by day, was responsible for 5,000 men, women and children at night...
...Last month one of TIME'S correspondents who crossed the U. S. S. R. returning to the U. S. wrote: "Moscow was very much as it used to be. I smelled that the moment our plane had wheeled into the spacious airport. . . . The whole country has a distinct, fetid odor of its own. . . . People looked better fed than a few years ago, better clad (especially with regard to overcoats and footwear), and they seem to be a little better housed too. There were fewer queues outside the food stores, shops and warehouses appeared better stocked than...
...CRAZY HUNTER - Kay Boyle - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The setting of these three short novels - with one excur sion to Capri - is nonbelligerent England. Most readable, least notable, is a horror study in which a piteous, pathic U. S. jazz-player meets a fetid little Cockney girl, blunders into desperate trouble through circumstantial evidence. Another, The Bridegroom's Body, draws sinister parallels between human emotional patterns on an English estate and the serpentine behavior of mating swans. Finest and most ambitious story is the title-piece. The crazy hunter is a defective gelding. Over the issue of his life...
Green Hell (Universal) has nothing but its title in common with Author Julian Duguid's brutally vivid account of physical torments in the Bolivian jungles. The picture dramatizes the dangers run by a group of treasure seekers trapped in a fetid South American jungle between a tribe of head-hunting Indians and Joan Bennett...