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...student at Manhattan's City College (class of '38), he proved himself a veritable Mickey Mantle among rookie scientists. By 1944 he was in the big leagues. The Government hauled him off to Cleveland's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, where he streamlined his name to Perl and directed an Air Forces research project in supersonic-aircraft design. By 1950, the year he got his doctorate from Columbia with a "secret" thesis on "transonic flows past thin airfoils," it began to look as though William Perl was associating with people who wanted to throw the game...
...years before World War I, Leon Jouhaux, radical young secretary general of France's labor federation (C.G.T.), raised the hair of his countrymen by plunging Paris into darkness, freezing the railroads and docks, introducing the quickie strike (grève éclair) and the slowdown (grève perlée). A red-hot anarcho-syndicalist risen from the factories, Jouhaux liked to boast that if war came, labor in all Europe would quench it by a general strike. But when war came, Jouhaux was a Frenchman after all. ("Heinous traitor," shrieked Lenin...
...your story about Dr. Gisella Perl, who aborted women prisoners in Nazi camps to save them from the gas chambers [TIME, Sept. 20], you omitted [a point] of great importance. Many of these women became pregnant because they were raped by the prison guards, who then had to conceal their violation of their own "racial purity" laws by killing the defenseless women. It is easy for shocked moralists, safe in this country, to condemn Dr. Perl. One wonders how nobly moral they would be if their own wives & daughters were in a similar situation...
...regards Dr. Perl's [being] "sentimental and well-meaning," and Dr. Deutschman's condemnation of her "wholesale slaughter of infants," I cannot but wonder about Dr. Deutschman's pretentiousness in passing judgment on the doctor's morals . . . Presumably, it would have been a happier choice to put the mothers to death before the children were born, [or] should the camp authorities consent to exceptions ... to raise children with the prospects of starvation, medical experimentation, permanent physical and mental mutilation...
...theological haggling over the virtue or sin of Dr. Perl, no one seems to have noted that the unborn babies were doomed in any event...