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Uprising in the North? Meanwhile, in Milan, the ganglion of Italy's leftist political life, there were rumors of a Communist uprising after A.M.G. pulls out of Italy next month. One Allied officer reported that the Allied intelligence services had learned the date set by the Communists...
...over the U.S.-he personally removed about 25,000 goiters. (Goiter removal is most frequent operation at Minnesota's Mayo and Boston's Lakey Clinics.) He devised his own operations for cancer of the lip and prolapse of the uterus, and advocated an operation on the coeliac ganglion (nickel-size nerve center above the kidneys) to bring down high blood pressure...
...cringed and sickened, the whole world had learned to fear, suspect, hate. Among other things it had become plain that while Germans were without question the most meticulous, thorough, shrewd, methodical fighters in the world, Britons had dug down to the marrow of each British bone and to the ganglion of each British nerve, and demonstrated that despite gross muddleheadedness and inefficiency, Britain could fight...
This blast against President Roosevelt's proposed tax on undistributed corporation profits (TIME, March 9, 16) issued last week not from a Republican diehard or frantic corporation executive, but from Today's Editor Raymond Moley, once officially and still unofficially a potent ganglion in the collective Roosevelt brain...
...Spoon River, the voices of the inarticulate suddenly articulate from the grave. It was variously welcomed, but always with interest, its powerful originality indisputable. The War is over, but people are still dying in Spoon River. The foreign born have come into their own. Spoon River has become "a ganglion for the monster brain Chicago." An addition has been made to the old cemetery, to accommodate the ashes of the lately dead. The new names of the departed include such as Euripides Alexopoulos, Didymus Hupp, Saul Kostecki, Teresa Pashkowsky, Diamandi Viktoria, Yet Sing Low. Their problems have changed, too. They...