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...Night is a tough, un even, undisciplined, sometimes remarkable, often annoying book-chiefly about Aviatrix Beryl Markham's experiences in the hot blue skies and green hills of Africa. Author Markham reveals herself as a self-made extravert, a museum sample of 20th-century primitivism at its simplest. Her harsh, keen story is a sort of Diana myth brought up to date...
...Quickest, simplest, safest method of amputation on the battlefield, said Colonel Norman Thomas Kirk of the U.S. Army, is the circular or "flapless guillotine" operation. "The word 'guillotine,'" said Colonel Kirk, "is a misnomer. The circular guillotine amputation is not a 'chop' operation." It consists of cutting around the skin of the limb, waiting a moment for it to draw back, then cutting around the connective tissue, waiting again for withdrawal, cutting through the muscles circularly, and finally sawing the bone. The old practice of covering the bone with flaps of skin has been abandoned...
...first South American sculpture ever bought for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection. The subject, St. Francis of Assist, is almost as closely related to Latin America as the wood from which it was wrought. The religious order of Franciscans, founded by this simplest and most lovable of saints, was identified with the Spanish conquest of America from the second voyage of Columbus...
Basic figure in such audience estimates is the Hooper rating, a percentage arrived at by the simplest of cross-section sampling. To get a rating, 120 Hooper field workers (all former telephone girls) in 32 key cities make phone calls at a rate of 3,000 an hour during the broadcast being checked. They ask three questions: "Were you listening to your radio just now? To what program? Over what station?" Homes which don't answer are counted as non-listeners...
...that the estimated losses of a year be concentrated and accepted in an offensive that would not only eject the Japanese from Karafuto [southern half of Sakhalin] but follow them into Hokkaido, with Honshu [the main Japanese island] and Tokyo as the objective. This is direct war in its simplest form. Because the successive fronts are narrow, Japan's advantage in numbers would not prove decisive. Because of the wild nature of the northern Nipponese islands, the resourcefulness of the anti-Japanese forces would be able to exert full pressure. All the means whereby Japan marched south could...