Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rudolf Hess, now officially pronounced an amnesia victim, was the most morose-looking of all, his green-tinged skin drawn tightly about his cadaverous skull. He tried to pass the time by reading a book of Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench. (Unimpressed, his U.S. doctor advised him to keep rocking.) The only display of what the Germans call Galgenhumor (humor of the gallows) came from ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach. Said he, as he was served dinner in his cell: "If the victuals continue...
...better malaria attack preventive than atabrine. Quinine and atabrine merely prevent parasites already in the blood from making the victim sick. Paludrine may occasionally even prevent malaria from getting into the blood at all, by killing the germ at the moment the mosquito pushes it through the skin...
...solution of the dye, malachite green, injected before a brain operation, will temporarily dye diseased brain tissue, but has no effect on healthy brain tissue. The British surgeon who uses it to help guide his knife has to reassure his patients beforehand: their skin and eyeballs will get over being green in a few days...
Saratoga Trunk (Warner) has been packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...
...only lip service to the dissolution of the Zaibatsu, peasants disapprove of free discussion of the imperial institution, etc. But the great majority hope that compliance with American demands will improve their lot. Certainly the Japs have to be watched-mainly because they are medievals whose westernization is only skin deep. Relatively. their purposes and motives are more trustworthy than their mental habits...