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Only the First. The first blow of the gathering Allied offensive was struck. The enemy might absorb it, stop it. But the fortnight of stalemate had clearly demonstrated this fact: the air-powerless Germans could do little to forestall similar blows wherever, whenever the Allies might choose to unleash them...
...becoming important last week. The Journal of the A.M.A. published an editorial on streptothricin, derived from Actinomyces lavendulae, a mold-like bacterium. Features of Streptothricin: 1) besides attacking many Gram-positive (blue-staining) bacteria, it attacks many of the Gram-negative (red-staining) against which penicillin is almost powerless-germs of typhoid, dysentery, etc.; 2) it is safe in therapeutic doses...
...Part Peace. Then he countered with his own theme: peace is a two-part problem. First Germany and Japan, once beaten, "must be rendered permanently powerless to renew tyranny and attack.... That is a specific responsibility of the victors [the Big Four]. ... It cannot immediately be delegated to a world-wide organization while such an organization is yet new and untried...
Like a beaten boxer reeling toward a knockout the German Army had seen the blow coming. It was powerless to parry it. The punch struck hard from the Mediterranean, and the southern coast of France became a new front to be fought by an army already presenting a strange study in military schizophrenia...
...Hall follows, learns that his fiancee's twin sister (Maria Montez) an evil High Priestess, has got the extras so hornswoggled by her snake dance that they march straight into the mouth of an active volcano. When Hall asks Maria's grandmother, the Island's powerless Queen, why her subjects act that way, he is told: "She appeals to their emotions." Mr. Hall's fiancee, Grandmother explains, has been brought back to save the Cobra Islanders from race suicide. In due time she does-then promptly deserts them, with Cinemactor Hall...