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...drove the pigs and chickens out of the house, went to work without instruments or medicines. For antiseptic he used salt water. Bandages were washed in a creek, re-used until they fell apart. His instruments: a carpenter's hammer, a hack saw, chisels. ("In fractures we hammered house nails through bones. ... To chip away the bone we used an ordinary chisel...
...Beachcomber" devotes his learnedly loony style alike to science and the arts. "A fellow-hack," he writes, "recently drew a piteous picture of those wretched people who, far from being escapists, are merely trying to escape from escapism. But what of the sturdy independent realists who are trying to escape from escapism from escapism?" And, touching on a bit of British antiquity, he remarks: "Holborn Town Hall, where Cecil Rhodes was born, is a good example of Phibbs in his later manner. It is neo-Romanesque rather than post-Palladian, and the gargoyle above the gutter which runs along...
...hermit born in the days of railroads. In his own way, Euclides da Cunha, his biographer, was as fanatical. Rebellion in the Backlands is Brazil's great classic, 476 pages of prose, thick as the jungles of Matto Grosso, through which (even in translation) a North American must hack his way blindly, barely able to make out the thread of history in the overhanging metaphors and the creeping vines of Da Cunha's philosophizing. Conselheiro's teachings soon led to open revolt, in which 6,000 Federal troops spent three months trying to advance 100 yards against...
Equipped with bulldozer blades, tractors hack out advance landing fields (see cut), push roads through the jungle and-in the Solomons-one armored giant even buried a dozen Japs in a pillbox that unprotected troops had been unable to approach (TIME, Dec. 20). Crawler tractors cleared banks, helped ford and bridge the Volturno River in Italy. Besides construction work, new-type tractors drag heavy artillery at more than 30 m.p.h.; others nudge landing barges off beaches and (with power winches attached) do all kinds of fabulous lifting and pulling jobs...
...look like a creamery truck when you put on a white suit? If you gain another ten pounds, will you have to wear license plates? Why look like the back of a hack? Try Dr. Quack's Slim Jim Reducing Tablets...