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...Jungle rot," "New Guinea crud" or "the creeping crud" are U.S. servicemen's names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. Doctors often find the nicknames convenient, since diagnosis is not always easy and many varieties respond to standard treatment: cleaning, painting with silver nitrate and other chemicals, dressing with sal-sulfur ointment, avoidance of sweating, return to the temperate zone. The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them...
...finest gentleman I've met over here in any army. There was not any rank between us; it was man-to-man on that job. But the men under him, the little civil servants in his command, were as near to perfect examples of the dry-rot in the British Empire as I have ever had the misfortune to come to know. They fought me on every turn and if I had not been able to go to .,____ direct, his runway would not be repaired today...
...note of viciously painful reality in the production is the moment when Richard Gaines, as the hero's high-class stepfather, who is visiting the pair's enchanted cottage and not liking it one little bit, indecently opens a tea-sandwich and sniffs it for rot...
...THUNDER - Frederic Prokosch - Harper ($2.50). Once again the author of The Conspirators silkily mixes mysticism and melodrama in an allegorical account of an underground agent's mission. In search of the spiritual dry rot besetting occupied France, the agent, Jean-Nicolas Martin, finds meaning for his own life in the love of a darkly beautiful Italian miss...
...there were no apple pickers. Tons of prime Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Winesaps, Jonathans and Newtowns seemed doomed to rot on the ground, depriving the U.S. of one-quarter of the 1944 apple crop. By last week an untrained army of 36.000 men, women & children (house wives, clerks, merchants, students, Mexicans, migrant farm workers, Indians off their reservations) battled time and the weather to save the apples. Public schools were closed...