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Leaders. Poland is the amoeba of Europe. Since the Tenth Century the rhythm of its life has been grow, divide, grow, divide. The very first king to give Poland substantial nationhood (Boleslav, the Wry-mouthed, 1086-1139) split his inheritance between four sons. And the most recent man to contribute to Polish statehood, Marshal Pilsudski, similarly divided his power (though not his land) among three favorites...
...Continent to file their stories directly to New York, but even then they were hours late. By the fourth day of the war virtually nothing was known of its military progress, and it looked as if this might be not only the worst but the worst-covered war in recent history...
...founder Charles B. Manville of Johns-Manville Corp. Since 1927 when control of the company passed into public hands and its management was given to professional executives (first Theodore Merseles, then Lewis H. Brown), one-time President H. Edward Manville has held only titles (the most recent: Chairman of the Board) and yachted about for health with his society-conscious wife. Last week he retired. Since his nephew Tommy Manville is an incorrigible playboy and his son Edward Jr. is still a worker in the ranks, no one by the name of Manville now has a titular post...
...Hospital is to most hospital romances what the Mayo Clinic is to an osteopath. Not even during the recent epidemic of doctors' and nurses' memoirs has a book smelled so strongly of ether and carbolic. Above all, Kenneth Fearing is a specialist in diagnosing hospital life as experienced by the patient-its atmosphere of muffled crises, sterilized optimism, morbid freshness, of surrealist panic as viewed through an anesthetic mask...
...prow dishing up small seas at every step. Suddenly a huge wave whammed her, sideslipped her into a deep sea-trough. Next instant she dived prow-first. Down she sank, spewing out 36 of her passengers & crew, drowning the rest. It was one of the worst sea disasters of recent years...