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...Army also found that Jimmy's basement workshop could not produce the requisite materials to control the flow and .mixing of fuel. Last week, regretfully, the Army grounded Jimmy's rocket. But Redstone's commander, Brigadier General Holger N. Toftoy, tried to hold open the door of science for Jimmy. Said the general: "We're going to ask Jimmy to come back and go to work for us when he finishes college...
...SHADOW OF MY HAND, by Holger Cahill (409 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half...
There was nothing wrong with the Schafer method as far as it went. But a Danish instructor in physical fitness, Holger Nielsen, argued that its rhythmic pressure on the lower ribs of the back caused the lungs to take up only the same amount of air as a person inhales in normal breathing. Nielsen reasoned that if the victim's lungs could be made to take a deep breath, like a man inflating his chest before an open window, there would be a better chance of expelling water or gases from the lungs. Nielsen developed a method...
Some 40,000 santiaguinos suffered from the disease, including President Gabriel González Videla and Interior Minister Admiral Immanuel Holger. Characterized by high fever and acute stomach pains, this year's influenza-like grippe was far more serious than the native garrotazo (literally, "clubbing"), which has afflicted Chileans for decades. Said Dr. Mario Plaza de los Reyes, a leading Santiago physician: "I've examined 30 cases and found in all of them symptoms similar to European grippe...
...author of this novel about China visited China briefly years ago, and has never been back. Since then Minnesota-born Holger Cahill, 54, has headed the WPA Art Project, and written an able biography of U.S. soldier-of-fortune Frederick T. ("Chinese") Ward. This long, rich novel is as full of indigestible mixtures and exotic surprises as the $1.35 "Chinese" dinner at any U.S. city's Shanghai Palace (one flight up over Jake's Paints & Hardware...