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Husky, square-jawed Captain Joseph J. Foss, ranking U.S. ace, returned to Guadalcanal from leave all ready to better his score of 23 enemy planes. He lost no time doing so. Before his hard-bitten competitors in Marine Fighting Squadron 223 could say "mess kit," he had knocked down three more Zeros. On the basis of last week's news, Joe Foss had already equaled Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's record of World War I: 26 aircraft...
...tanks went in at dawn. While a bitter wind swirled the sands of the Sahara the infantry waited in slit trenches for their signal. Faces and clothes were grimed with the dust. They were in full battle kit. Their weapons glinted in the bright sun. These were Montgomery's shock troops. They had done the job before at El Alamein where the long trek had started. They were eager to do it again for the harsh, implacable man whom they adored...
Each weekday morning Oliver the physician, wearing a bailiff's brass badge pinned to his waistcoat, let himself into a dingy little room in Baltimore's Court House. It was a simple place, filing cases bulging with records of human wretchedness, a medicine table, a first-aid kit, a couch with sagging springs. There he helped unravel twisted lives caught by the law. Some got a sedative, but Dr. Oliver first tried, to win their confidence and get them to talk, "for confession and expression are good for the soul, even better than four tablespoonfuls of aromatic spirits...
Reclamation. At Fort Belvoir, Va., an Army supply sergeant found diapers on a laundry list, learned that one soldier carried them 1) to clean his rifle, 2) to polish his mess kit, 3) to dust his shoes, 4) to pad the inside of his helmet...
...easily scared by anything, Henry Kaiser is not scared at all by what the A.M.A. calls socialized medicine. His medical ideas are no less sweeping than his other projects-he wants to doctor everybody. Bursting with health himself, Kaiser carries a medicine kit wherever he goes to "look after my folks," often stops in his plants and shipyards to offer pills to gravel-shovelers and executives. This concern goes back to his boyhood: Henry Kaiser believes his mother died too young for lack of medical care...