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Last spring a Red Army colonel, red-headed as Dr. Frumkin, was brought in with such a wound. With the colonel's permission, Dr. Frumkin decided to chance an operation that most doctors frown upon: he would give the colonel another man's testicle. The operation had to wait until the right donor was found, someone newly dead whose blood type matched the colonel's. The needed gland was eventually supplied by a young man killed in a streetcar accident...
...Reaction. Thus, with many a frown, many a flushing face, the Senate started its second week of debate on an issue the House had handed it on Feb. 1. Its Military Affairs Committee had twisted & turned as though it were all a nightmare, had voted weak bills, stronger bills, had taken out penalties, had put them back in. The Senate itself had done more of the same. Rumbled Alben Barkley, majority leader: "Let us get action ... let us vote on something. ... I think we have spent a great deal of time messing around." Maine's Wallace H. White...
...Father Time came out of Mem Hall last week--they keep everything in there--with the usual appurtenances (hour-glass, scythe, and beard) and as he checked Mem's clock with his Ingersoll (technological advance, you see), he was observed to frown...
Under the snowy New England skies, surrounded by illimitable forests, the Puritans found the meaning of life in the love of God. They did not frown upon card-playing, dancing, flashy clothes and the sexual appetite as evils in themselves, but because the love of God permitted no rivalry. They affirmed the doctrine of human depravity. But it remained for the 20th Century, uncovering the raw materials and forces of human life and making a cult of the uncovering ("as though there were some virtue in returning from modern plumbing to surface drainage"), to reaffirm the doctrine of human depravity...
Moscow might frown, but persistent Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak knew what he wanted: a Western European Bloc. Pausing briefly in Brussels last week on his way from London to Paris, he made a historic statement. Said he: twice in a generation Belgian neutrality had been violated, Belgium overrun; as a result Belgium had renounced forever her traditional policy of neutrality and independence. He added "The British will supply military equipment to us. A certain number of Belgian soldiers will go to Britain for training in British methods...