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...lady in white is a great South African feature of the war. She is smiling, stocky, big-bosomed, 52-year-old Perla Siedle, a onetime Wagnerian soprano who has sung to more than 5,000 ships carrying a quarter of a million Allied servicemen in & out of South Africa's busiest wartime port. Standing on Durban's quays in her invariable white dress and red hat, Perla Siedle amplifies her vibrant soprano with a ship's megaphone. Yanks ask for God Bless America, The Star-Spangled Banner, Tommies for There'll Always Be An England. Australians...
...Perla Siedle is known to U.S. doughboys as Kate Smith or Ma, to Britons as the Lady in White or the Soldiers' Sweetheart, to the Poles as the South African Nightingale. The wealthy daughter of a South African shipowner, she studied in Germany as a young woman, gave recitals years ago in both London and Manhattan. What Perla calls her "wharfside work" began three years ago when she was seeing off a young Irish seaman her family had entertained the day before. Across the water he yelled: "Please sing something Irish." Through cupped hands, Perla obliged with When Irish...
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...Montefiore, world's largest private hospital for chronic diseases, Dr. Perla and co-workers collected 30 of the worst operative risks they could find-patients with advanced tuberculosis, cancer of the colon and rectum, glandular tumors. For five or six days before operation he gave them diets rich in protein and vitamins, plenty of salt and water, and injections of desoxycorticosterone. Injections were continued for two weeks after operation...
...patients so prepared," said Dr. Perla last week, "... [showed] little or no evidence of shock. . . . Operative recovery was more rapid than usual and in many instances the patient gave the impression that he had not experienced a major operation." Traumatic shock, he concluded, such as occurs after wounds and accidents, "may respond readily" to large amounts of the natural hormone injected directly into the bloodstream...