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...manual will be issued to Army and Navy personnel who may be assigned to duty in the tropics of the Orient...
...Father Duhamel was 33, one of ten children. Two of his brothers are in the U.S. armed forces. From boyhood he wanted to be a missionary. In 1939 he got his wish, was sent to the Solomons. One of his brothers suggested that "trouble" was brewing and that the Orient was not a safe place. Said Father Duhamel: "That is what I am going there...
Taking the easiest way out possible, the Princeton Undergraduate Council passed a resolution this week on the month-old color discrimination battle, recommending immediate admittance of Negroes only to the Graduate School and stalling the college issue until the student body can "orient" itself to the new situation. With recent polls showing a very slight student and a definite faculty majority in favor of Negro admittance, Princeton has now reached the point where it must either practice what it preaches or be content with the humiliation of attacking race prejudice from the armchair only. In connection with this the Council...
...first saw his daughter when she was six months old. The delayed pleasure of eating the favorite steak, salad, pie, cake and ice cream occupied many a returned soldier's first hours. Flying Tiger George Burgard luxuriated in a Turkish bath "to get about a year of the Orient out of me." Many were overwhelmed by the first sight of an American girl and some happily did the once despised chore of wiping the family dishes which seemed to put the war as far away as possible...
With quinine imports from the Orient shut off, Winthrop contracted with Merck & Co., Inc. to manufacture atabrine (TIME, April 27). Present production of the two firms is 500 million tablets, enough for 33 million cases of malaria. But both could produce several hundred million more in case of need...