Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shirley Temple celebrated her 16th birthday with her first high-heeled shoes, heard Hollywood predictions that her comeback in the forthcoming Since You Went Away will be a smash hit. Her current flame is 17-year-old Dale Harris, who will appear with her in a subsequent film, Double Furlough...
...would like to ask you to do her a favor, Mr. President. . . She would be grateful to you for the rest of her life if you could let Charles come home on a furlough for a few days...
Howard's letter had hardly been mailed before Brother Charles began telling Italy goodby. For some days, the sergeant had been slated for a furlough. But if young Howard's letter had done nothing else, it had restated a simple American credo. Even in the 28th month of a $312 million-a-day war, the still-unregimented U.S. people believed that people come first. The War Department, taking time out to judge assorted tales of loneliness, sickness and heartache, generally agreed...
...Jersey, Teresa Truax, 19 months, was gravely ill with leukemia. Her father, Sergeant Elmer Truax, was Somewhere in the South Pacific. Only the Commander in Chief of the South Pacific area could approve a furlough, and communications to him must be only on matters of military import. But Mrs. Truax kept trying. Last week she got a letter cold, with official language, warm with hope: The matter was receiving the "attention of the appropriate officials of the War Department." Teresa's mother beamed: "I guess we're getting some action...
These remarkable results were obtained by a man who is not a doctor. He is Corporal Ivor Cornman, 28, who was studying at the University of Michigan for a Ph.D. when he joined the Army in 1942. His experiment was done on a 45-day furlough at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. Says Corporal Cornman in this week's Science: "'[These studies] have revealed a selective lethal effect of penicillin upon rat and mouse sarcoma cells, of which a full account will be published later...