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Says the Public Health Service's top statistician, Dr. Jacob Yerushalmy: babies spaced at "moderate intervals" have the best chance of being born alive. Dr. Yerushalmy did not specify what a "moderate interval" is. The best time to have a second child, said the doctor, is at 20 to 24, and the best time to have the sixth through eighth is in the early...
...first trustworthy account of the aftereffects of the atomic bomb came last week from a Dutch surgeon who was in a Nagasaki prison camp when the bomb fell. (Of 200 Allied prisoners, four were killed; four died later). The surgeon, Captain Jacob Vink, challenged one Jap claim: he doubts that anyone entering an atom-bombed city afterwards would suffer from radioactivity. But he verified the fact that many (though not all) of the bomb victims who seemed to be recovering collapsed and died several weeks later. Their symptoms...
Back at last, they did what any bomber's crewmen do at the end of a mission: they told what had happened to their targets. Two of them, Lieut. Robert I. Hite of Earth, Texas and Sergeant Jacob de Shazer of Madras, Ore., had fired fuel tanks and factories in Nagoya. Lieut. C. J. Nielsen of Hyrum, Utah had flown over Tokyo, seen his plane's bombs explode in steel mills and a foundry...
...Japanese . . . are asking for invasion and they are going to get it."-Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford. CJ Redeployment and retraining of U.S. troops will be speeded to permit the delivery of "a single crushing blow. . . . There's no use doing it piecemeal."-General Jacob L. Devers...
...Which of Jacob's sons was a "hind...