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...head of his thrust lay close to the flat land extending east from Moulmein. The defenders' withdrawal had been orderly. Now they hoped to slice up the Jap in terrain that was more to their liking. Meanwhile, 150 miles south on Burma's slender panhandle, the Jap had grabbed Tavoy. In that position he held a secondary block against any British push to the south, which at the moment was unlikely...
Since correspondents' first enthusiasms for Franklin Roosevelt have cooled they realize "how slight is their foothold, how easy it would be, in times of genuine crisis. to ... reduce their freedom to the slender confines of the Constitutional verbiage." When President Roosevelt last year barred Correspondent Paul Mallon from White House press conferences, only one to speak out was the Times's Charles Kurd. Moral is, thinks Clark, that Washington correspondents need an ethical organization like the American Medical Association...
Last week Londoners noticed a slender Oriental stalking through their streets...
They gave him a local anesthetic, cut open the arteries high on each leg, broke up the blood clot with a special probe, then sucked out the pieces with a long, slender tube. As soon as his blood vessels were stitched up, the patient was given transfusions and large injections of heparin, a liver extract which prevents clotting. Immediately after the operation, said Drs. Ravdin and Wood, "the color and temperature of the right leg returned to normal." His left leg recovered more slowly. For almost two weeks after the operation, heparin was constantly dripped into his veins...
...west, as the world had taken for granted, but along the fringes of the South China Sea. To keep Russia and China fighting back-to-back against the closing pincers, the Allies must keep a supply line to Russia open. The Archangel and the slender Caucasus lines might also be cut by Nazi arms. Only Vladivostok would then remain. Since the U.S. is committed to the delivery of aid to Russia, a Japanese attack on Siberia would be a direct assault on U.S. policy...