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...Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...
Like the loyal Westchester and Long Island commuters who would not think of boarding their homebound trains without it, the old (112 years) New York Sun dresses conservatively, does its huffing & puffing in genteel tones, and ordinarily abhors the idea of making a scene. It seldom surprises its small (circ. 294,000) clientele, many of whom consider the independent Democratic New York Times unforgivably radical (the Times supported Roosevelt...
...many of the lavish spreads looked confusingly like the advertisements they adjoined. And like the old National Geographic, the new Holiday obviously suffered from the same travel restrictions that have kept wanderlustful vacationers homebound. To season his first issue with a dash of global flavor, Editor Beaman bought a rewrite by U.P. Funnyman Frederick C. Othman of his six-day round-the-world flight. Other pieces covered San Francisco, the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the Southwest's cliff-dweller ruins...
...Havre, biggest port of embarkation for homebound G.I.s, the U.S. Army port area commander demanded to look over all correspondents' stories. His reason: dispatches reporting friction between the French and the G.I.s had caused "embarrassment...
...each homebound transport an information crew (one officer, six enlisted men) mingled with passengers, encouraging conversations and questions. They were well primed on the workings of the G.I. Bill of Rights. And they toted information kits which included copies of TIME, the World Almanac, and Army orientation pamphlets...