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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Lawyer Leibowitz's guidance, Louis Greenfield told of dreams he began having which "seemed to tell me, 'If you love Jerry ... let him slip away peacefully in his sleep . . . and he won't be tormented and looked at and yelled at and tortured by doctors." After one fitful, dream-racked night, Greenfield sent his wife to the shop, did the deed...
...Colonel Albert G. Love: In the World War, 65.9% of 224,000 U. S. wounded were shot, 31.49% gassed, .26% bayonetted. Artillery fire caused 70% of the gunshot wounds (compared to artillery's 10% in the Civil War, when small arms caused 90% of wounds). As in all armies, the infantry in the World War had the highest casualty rate; aviation along with ordnance the lowest (only 8% of Air Corps personnel are pilots...
Calling the infantry rate 100, Colonel Love arrived at the following index of losses for other services: machine gunners (now in the infantry) 70.12; signal corps 16.46; tank corps 15.85; artillery 11.58; engineers 9.15; medical 8.54; cavalry and quartermaster department 3.05 each; aviation and ordnance 1.83. In the World War the ratio of losses for every 1,000 infantrymen in combat was as high as 349.6 killed & wounded in one day of intense attack, more often was no to 150. Guessing for the next war, the U. S. Medical Corps expects 150 daily casualties (24 killed, 96 shot & wounded...
...individuality and originality. Like the lesser artists of any period who for some reason have not produced the consistently superior quality of work which would raise them to the very top, they have contributed much that is worthy of attention. Vivaldi, for instance, though primarily a violin virtuoso whose love of flash and dexterity often carried him to vacuous extremes, had command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical...
...love or a season...