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Akweke Abyssinia Nwafor Orizu, of Manhattan, is a tall, black, sober young man of 24 who calls himself "Prince Orizu." He uses the title only to impress whites with the fact that Africa has traditional governments of its own. His hearers are usually sufficiently impressed to ask what he is prince of. His answer: Nnewi...
...Canadians are very democratic and take a dim view of people who try to impress them...
Hodges had been an officer 20 years when he got the break that was to make him a three-star general in World War II. Most of the top Army commanders today are men who, at one time or another, have impressed George Marshall, who is a hard man to impress. In 1929 (when the Army was at one of its lowest points in men and money) George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel, the assistant commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Two majors impressed him there: plain, lanky Omar Bradley and ramrod-straight, studious Courtney Hodges...
When a hand is "bitten" (usually by an accidental blow against teeth, rarely by actual biting), treatment is to cut the wound wide open, remove all tissue injured by the poisonous teeth, bandage with splints or a cast so the hand cannot move. To impress laymen and doctors with the necessity for quick treatment, Dr. Hudson gave some facts: 1) of 14 hand bites treated at Massachusetts General Hospital, five of the seven treated late lost fingers or parts of them; 2) of 14 cases seen by Dr. Hudson himself, none of the eight treated early had amputations, three...
...Russia and the Satellites. "Armistice terms agreed upon with Finland and Rumania bear naturally the impress of Soviet will and here I must draw attention to the restraint which characterized the Soviet terms to these two countries. . . . Bulgarian armistice terms have not yet been signed. Soviet intervention in this theater was at once startling and effective. The sudden declaration of war by Russia was sufficient to induce Bulgaria to turn her caitiff arms against the German intruders...