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...midweek Secretary Hull trudged firmly up the Capitol steps to try to answer some questions for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Gesturing constantly with a sidearm wave of his right hand and forearm, the old man talked for two hours without glancing at a note. But the generalities of his review added little to the Senators' information. His main theme: in wartime the State Department's primary task is to help win the earliest possible victory with the fewest possible losses. Nearly all questions should be held for the peace table...
Many firms forearm themselves with a clean-slate report from D. & B. before going out to look for war work. One such investigation recently proved to the startled head of a large war plant that his own secretary was a Japanese agent. A similar check for a high Washington war man had him in a cold sweat last week. Said a terse X & B. report on a man he was about to promote: "This man has held several responsible jobs. His habits are good. But ie is of German extraction and his loyalty is questioned. His closest associates refer...
Angered, acquitting himself surprisingly well for a man who had never used the saber, Damonte pinked Rottjer's forearm, sliced through the thick hairs on his opponent's chest and left a trail of blood...
...Madison Square Garden. In the other singles match of the opening performance of an 80-city tour, Bobby Riggs, also making his professional debut, won by default from Fred Perry, 1941 pro champion, when Perry sprawled headlong on the hard floor, injured a nerve in his right forearm. To pinch-hit for Perry for at least a week, Promoter Alexis Thompson got Gene Mako, onetime U.S. doubles champion (with Budge), to turn...
...attached electrodes to the man's brain and heart, tried vainly to stimulate them. He injected an adrenalin compound into the heart, meanwhile compressing the chest. No results. Only sign of life: when he struck the man's forearm with a rubber hammer, it twitched like a knee jerk. After two hours, Dr. Brickley pronounced him "dead beyond recall." Electrocution, said Dr. Brickley last week, kills in three different ways: 1) it heats the body abnormally, coagulating the blood; 2) it contracts the muscles, choking off the body's supply of oxygen; 3) it produces rupture...