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...London Times, which meticulously records the first cuckoos in Hyde Park and the first primroses in Kew, chronicled another notable event: the first real ice cream since the war began. Hitherto the Government permitted Britons to trifle with limited quantities of an ersatz product made with powdered milk. Last week's relaxation of all bans moved the Times to moralize magnificently...
...psychiatric interviews with mentally sick soldiers that Major Albert A. Rosner of the Army Air Forces has recorded in the last six months. He believes that his unique record library, which will eventually be filed in the Army Medical Library in Washington, may be helpful in teaching psychiatry. Hitherto a student psychiatrist's acquaintance with his chief technique, the psychiatric interview, has had to be at second hand-an observer makes the patient too self-conscious to talk freely. The recording machine, says Dr. Rosner, bothers his patients...
...Woodward-Doering process is not a synthesis. It is a method of extracting quinidine (hitherto derived chiefly from a variety of the cinchona tree, growing only in Java) from quinine itself. Since widely used atabrine has largely displaced quinine in the treatment of malaria, part of the stockpile of quinine can thus be turned to good use by converting it to the scarcer drug...
...reporters were present at Yalta. But three U.S. newsmen arrived after the conference broke up, made the long trip home with the President. This week the Associated Press's White House correspondent, Douglas B. Cornell, gathered up his notes, published five articles on Yalta. Some hitherto unknown incidents...
Taking time out from his massive life work, "An Oral History of Our Time," the Village Herodotus has written a monologue on "Why Princeton Should Be Abolished," which he hopes to have published in the near future, perhaps in the Saturday Review of Literature. Gould reasons along hitherto untried lines: "Princeton was originally the college of New Jersey, and in New Jersey people put tomatoes in their clam chowder." Therefore Princeton should be abolished...