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...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...
Therapy: fatherly sergeants, sympathetic Red Cross workers. For extreme cases, a furlough...
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...
...patriotism, but Mulvehill and Esty simply gyp Hargrove right & left. As co-executives of a mythical Date Bureau, they sell him an evening with a girl (Donna Reed) who never heard of their scheme. They also form the Marion Hargrove Beneficial Association to raise funds for his New York furlough. The catch: he signs over to them the proceeds of his literary future. Later Mulvehill wangles good safe desk jobs for himself and Hargrove. But as their unit embarks for war, their sense of war's comradeship gets the better of them, and they plead their way back into...