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...happened in Honan. Crops had failed since 1940. The normal surplus had disappeared. The Army in this vital war area is supported entirely by local foods collected as grain taxes. Civilian officials also each get a monthly quota of grain. The Government people hoped the fall crops of millet corn would meet the needs of the peasantry. But no rain fell and the autumn harvest was almost a total loss...
Others insist that in his later life he copied his own pictures to make enough money for his charities to fellow painters (Corot once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a ten-year 1,000-franc annuity instead). But as Bachelor Corot grew older, his pictures grew more effeminate, his landscapes became more wishy-washy, more virginal. Famed Critic Julius Meier-Graefe once summed up what was wrong with Corot as a painter by remarking that he "lacked the grain of poison which is the preservative of greatness...
...these none too scientific words Washington's Chief Air-Raid Warden warned the city's wardens against the effects of panic.* Last week in Manhattan, the Emergency Committee of Neuro-Psychiatric Societies, headed by Psychiatrist John A. P. Millet, began a series of lectures to wardens, giving a more realistic picture of the possibilities of air-raid panic...
Chief points in the lectures on panic prevention which Dr. Millet's committee is giving to air-raid wardens: 1) nowhere in World War II have air raids broken civilian morale; 2) much of the tension that the public now feels would clear up in an actual bombing; 3) calm, authoritative leadership will minimize panic...
...Food is so inadequate that every disease is influenced by malnutrition. The average diet in North China rarely includes meat, consists of yellow corn and millet flour, sometimes mixed with soybean flour, and sesame or peanut oil. People who have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North...