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...Dimmy") Dimitman's handshakes with reporters and deskmen were perfunctory, and his looks were all against him: round-shouldered, reed-thin, with a small chin and a mousy little reddish mustache. A few hours later the staff liked his looks a lot better...
Luis Herrera Guevara, who has not a hair on his head, sports a black wig in winter, a reddish one in summer. He admits: "Often I make mistakes, put two balconies on a house when there should be three. . ." This does not bother his admirers...
Three days before Christmas the unhappy pastor of the Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church, outside Detroit, sent a letter to the Detroit Council of Churches. Wrote tall, reddish-haired, 32-year-old Merrill O. Bates: "I deeply regret that you have worded your entrance requirements so as to make membership in the Council impossible for the following churches: Latter-Day Saints [Mormon], Christian Science and Unitarian. Our sons, our fathers, our brothers are dying on land and sea that justice and freedom-yea, even the Christian Religion might live, while we at home draw circles around our love." Mr. Bates probably...
...battalion is commanded by a red-faced, rednecked, reddish-mustached, beetle-browed Irishman, Lieut. Colonel James Joseph Deery, 40, who talked himself (age 17) into the Army in World War I, graduated from West Point in 1925. The battalion, first Army anti-tank outfit, was organized only two weeks before last year's Louisiana maneuvers where it raised hob with Major General George Patton's famed tanks...
When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation...