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Cholera, still widespread and deadly in India and China, can be prevented among the soldiers by vaccination. So can bubonic plague, carried by rat fleas, although protection is not complete...
Discipline on the island was once so harsh that a favorite punishment for incorrigibles was to maroon them without food or water on a shelterless, rat-infested islet. Many men preferred death among the sharks in the water to fighting off the rats for days & nights...
Solitaire (adapted by John van Druten from Edwin Code's novel; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a harmless piece of flimsy-whimsy about a poor little rich girl who makes friends with a kindly old tramp, visits him in his hobo jungle, coos over his tame rat, prattles on about Life. Her snobbish parents and his tougher fellow tramps whip up, between them, some lurid melodrama, but nothing that a final curtain can't cure...
Undergraduates in the Houses will live in fourdecker beds, and the House dining rooms will be gigantic automats. An eighth House will have been constructed by grouping together all the rat houses and certain other buildings on Mt. Auburn Street...
...good ones. I. J. Kapstein's Something of a Hero ($2.75) was an honest, compassionate image of a U.S. city and of the obligations and shortcomings of U.S. democracy. William Faulkner's younger brother John, in Men Working ($2.50), showed neither influence nor need of any. River Rat ($2.50), by Daniel Lundberg, showed a fresh comic talent; Felice Swados, in House of Fury ($2), showed remarkable sure-footedness with new and difficult material: adolescent emotions in a girls' reform school, highlighted by a race riot...