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...Soviet participation, old Moscow Generals January and February (alias Cold and Hunger) will probably ruin Chief of High Command Wilhelm Keitel's reputation even as they ruined Napoleon's in 1812. But whatever their failings in grand strategy, the Germans are among the world's greatest technicians...
...beginning of the 19th Century her army consisted of an untrained rabble which, theoretically, should have been easy meat for the professional armies of surrounding nations. But the brains of Napoleon soon fused this rabble into a fine French army and, what is more, employed it to gain the greatest French victories since the 18th-Century days of Marshal Saxe...
Poliomyelitis. Next month the greatest scourge of childhood, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), will make its yearly descent on the U. S. To parents who are nervous about bringing their children to the New York World's Fair, Dr. John L. Rice, New York City Health Commissioner, was reassuring: "In the years 1937 and 1938 the incidence of the disease was very low and this year, up to the present time, it is even lower. No one can predict the future of poliomyelitis accurately, but based on our present knowledge, no one need fear infantile paralysis in New York City this...
...Greatest problem of old age: resignation. Contrary to popular belief, old people are far from sexless. The flow of sex hormones does not ebb when men reach their 60s and 70s. Says Columbia's Anatomist Earl Theron Engle, spermatozoa are formed in at least 50% of old men. Bending a Freudian ear to their querulous complaints, Psychiatrist Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton of Santa Barbara, Calif, offers the opinion that old men & women are no less troubled by sex problems than are the young. Says he: "Many persons . . . who have passed their sixtieth year vaguely feel that it is time...
Four thousand sympathetic, plushy, perspiring people filled the hall, but did not overflow it. They heard and applauded MRA messages from bigwigs, MRA testimonials from Groupers. They gave their greatest applause to Grouper "Bunny'' Austin, British tennis star, and accepted calmly enough the one message which made headlines. For the meeting, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote: "A program of Moral Re-Armament cannot fail . . . to lessen the danger of armed conflict. Such Moral Re-Armament, to be most highly effective, must receive support on a world-wide basis...