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...families waited in vain for word of 85 of their sons who had been with the 192nd Tank Battalion at Bataan. For most of the families of some 12,000 American soldiers and sailors taken by the Japs-and still unaccounted for-the waiting and suspense only became sharper...
...Letdown. But Army & Navy officials thought the need for a work-or-fight law was sharper than ever. The week's good news pointed up the armed services' greatest fear-that the end of the European war would cause a disastrous letdown on the home front...
Wrong-Way Eddy. His reasons are quite understandable. He was born into a middle-class family of Providence, R.I. He was the awkward kind of schoolboy with blazing red hair who invariably lost his girls to sharper rivals. All thumbs at baseball, too clumsy for soccer, he met the only great chance of his athletic career (an emergency place on the relay team) by grabbing the baton and running the wrong way around the track...
...human bite is sometimes sharper than a serpent's tooth. A bite that is hard enough to break the skin, even with prompt treatment, may result in an amputation. If treatment is delayed twelve hours, the chances of amputation are increased threefold. In fact, said Dr. Otho C. Hudson of Hempstead, L.I., in last fortnight's New York State Journal of Medicine, human bites anywhere on the body are much more dangerous than animal bites (except, of course, those of rabid dogs). Reason: human mouths contain very destructive bacteria...
...week's end the Vatican's Osservatore Romano took a sharper stand: it denied the Stoneman "rumor." Further, it openly berated the Russians for not aiding the Warsaw Underground (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Said the London Observer: "Recent Russian overtures for Vatican friendship have found favor with certain church princes who still dream about Catholic expansion in Russia. The Pope, however, seems for the time being to have decided against reconciliation with Russia, and the fate of Catholic Poland provided his overriding motives...