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...days in any farm, community would reveal to even a critical British traveler that surprisingly few of the girls or their mamas are pale and wan, with "narrow hips . . . and slender, nonprehensile hands." He would discover in any small town, and perhaps be cheered to learn, that not all of the homes consist of a "spectacled, crushed-looking man" dominated by a starved and sterile-appearing clotheshorse...
...newborn baby was pale, jaundiced. At Adelphi Hospital, Brooklyn, blood expert Alexander S. Wiener quickly made tests, found that the baby's blood was Rh positive, the mother's Rh negative.* Unless something was done quickly, the baby would probably die of erythroblastosis in a few hours. Dr. Wiener decided to change the baby's blood...
...year history the New York Social Register has been known to list -through accident or indulgence-murderers, convicts, and a Pekinese bitch. But Broadway and Hollywood are usually considered beyond the pale. The 1947 edition, out last week, showed that the secret board of editors* was more vigilant than ever. In stayed 24 Roosevelts, 20 Pells, 8 Vanderbilts, 4 Astors, 3 Stuyvesants, 7 de Peysters, 14 Havemeyers. Out went: ¶Hyatt Von Dehn, longtime Registerite. He married Singer Ginny Simms in 1945, was listed with her in the 1946 edition. Ginny was found wanting. ¶Mrs. Faith Corrigan Fair McNulty...
Among the delegates were tanned, freckled farmers from the Holy Land, businessmen from the U.S., Britons with Oxford accents, worn, pale graduates of Europe's D.P. camps, Jews from Finland and Aden, Dutch Guiana and China. All had come to Basel to answer the question: "Shall the Congress approve the Jewish Agency's formula for the partition of Palestine into separate and independent Arab and Jewish states as a bargaining basis with Britain?" On this question depended Jewry's attitude toward the London conference in January...
...Grosz was drafted again. Says he: "I just couldn't take it any more. One night I was found semiconscious, partially buried in a dung pit. ... I was placed in an asylum for war-crazed, shell-shocked and insane soldiers." Grosz emerged from the asylum a pale hurricane of rage. He had reason to hate the men who had been on top in Germany, and "among the masses I found scorn, mockery, fear, oppression, falsehood, betrayal, lies and filth-in abundance." In beaten Germany he found an abundance of subjects, drew thousands of dagger-sharp drawings of pig-faced...