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...pesky wallaby (small kangaroo) ran in front of his Hying Fortress as it took off, broke a hydraulic line on the landing gear. Flames from the exhaust fired the fluid. In a few seconds, the fire set off the bomb load and all on board were killed...
...style. Less admirable is his tendency to concentrate long, if lovingly, on surfaces. Like his fellow historian in American fiction, Robert Graves, Allen is weakest in his departures into romantic interludes. Unlike Graves, he has a passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish border novel, Allen is capable of sinking to turgid depths, of causing a betrayed girl...
...Fluid milk is unfit for human consumption, says 75-year-old Dr. Horace Wendell Soper of St. Louis. As a onetime recorder of the GastroEnterological Association and chairman of A.M.A.'s section in that field, he cannot be dismissed as a crank. In 1941, after 47 years of practice, he retired, but soon returned to work because "I liked work better." He started damning fluid milk about 25 years ago, after 15 years of watching its effect in the human...
...frequent bouts with acute malaria and gout, he could endure no nursing except hers (though, with a desperate man's hunger for any conceivable "cure," he for a long time carried "raw potatoes on his person, with the idea that they would collect all the poisonous fluid accumulated in his body...
Writes Professor Lloyd: "The body may be more or less compressed between the lobes. The glands [with which the surface of the leaf lobes are covered] then secrete a digestive fluid and in a few days the insect body disintegrates and the products are absorbed. In the course of ten days the lobes open again, and are ready to catch other prey. This may be repeated two or three times before the leaf reaches its complete maturity, when it dies...