Word: roald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOMEONE LIKE You (359 pp.)-Roald Do/)/-Knopf...
Mary's little leg of lamb is an unusual weapon, but no more unusual than Roald Dahl's plots. Someone Like You is a collection of 18 of the 37-year-old Briton's quietly savage tales. They are.often macabre and always bizarre, involving chicanery, murder, dismemberment or some more commonplace drawing-room horror...
...remnants of a depot placed ten years later by the Danish explorer (my father-in-law), the late Admiral Godfred Hansen. The depot was placed in 1919. . . approximately 700 feet north of Peary's old post . . . and was laid out by the third Thule expedition as fourrage for Roald Amundsen in case he should succeed in flying over the North Pole from his expedition . . . along the Asiatic coast...
...about World War II flying make dull reading, perhaps because aerial combat had become so formalized that one account seems pretty much like another. But Editor Jensen has dug up two first-rate items for his closing sections. Someone Like You is a poignant sketch of battle fear by Roald Dahl, a onetime R.A.F. pilot. And in The Three Secrets of Flight, Wolfgang Langewiesche, a onetime test-pilot, offers a superbly lucid discussion of the psychological adjustments men must make to survive...
...Roald T. Vinnard, now a general surgeon in Fresno, Calif., saw a lot of this sort of thing as a resident physician in big New Orleans and Los Angeles hospitals, and it infuriated him. In Postgraduate Medicine, he tells why: there is no need to treat a dogbite differently from any other flesh wound; this has long been known to medical science, but too many doctors are still using oldfashioned, discredited methods...