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...same time a forceful commentary on the American scene. With a superb cast that steps right out of Benet's story, it is a heart warming tale of very human people,--people you might know yourself. This assumes that you don't know Mr. Scratch, otherwise known as the Devil. But you'll know him and like him after you see Walter Houston's sly, mischievous interpretation of a role that could easily be overdone...
...typhus germ is called Rickettsia prowazeki, after Typhus Researchers Howard Taylor Ricketts and Stanislaus Prowazek. In feeding, the infected louse bows its head, pricks the skin with sharp stylets for bloodsucking, and meanwhile often excretes Rickettsiae on to the skin. When a victim scratches his itching louse bite, he is apt to infect himself by rubbing Rickettsiae into the scratch...
...shibboleth of classic neutrality," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú wiped his face with his handkerchief. When the Under Secretary concluded with a ringing declaration that democratic ideals "will yet triumph," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú fanned himself, being careful to use a scratch pad and not a copy (translated into Spanish) of Mr. Welles's speech...
...contacts with other colleges the group is working in close cooperation with the Student League of America and International Student Service. The plan is that the magazine can serve as the clearing house for existing groups studying post-war problems, rather than attempting to build up such groups from scratch. In this way duplication of existing work can be avoided and the magazine can perform a function that is not being done...
...merits the Sun will now really have to scratch. Its character still fuzzy, dutiful rather than inspired in editorials, it has done nothing since its scoop of Pearl Harbor to attract attention. Chicago newsmen particularly shake their heads over the Sun's news sense. Example: it passed up a U.P. story on Wake Island to run its own H. R. Knickerbocker's story a day late...