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Throngs of Filipinos stood in the rain beside the liquid roads of Leyte last week to watch the jeeps slosh by, to cheer, and cheer again. The whole green, steaming land had turned to quaking ooze. But there was no dampening the Filipino spirit...
...night Rangers are often summoned from their tents and Niesen huts, sent off through the eternal rain on compass marches over unmarked, blacked-out terrain. On these marches they wade creeks, slosh through mires, sleep wet and muddy on open ground without bedroll or tent. They live off the country, learn how to kill a sheep by cracking its neck with a quick twist (so that its bleat will not betray them), how to butcher it and start cooking within seven minutes...
...slosh of manufacturers' publicity releases, out of starry-eyed speeches about far-distant planes that will "make the angels gasp," one fact emerged last week: the U.S. has another pursuit plane in battle and the first reports look good. Lockheed's long-ranged, twin-Allison-engined P-38, nicknamed Lightning, suddenly blossomed into action around the world...
...this winter in anticipation of coming out into the open next spring. All that they used to take on Wellesley's more experienced eights, they say, is a new boathouse, a launch and a substitute for the invincible Cutty Sark. But until they get them, they are determined to slosh along bravely with smiles on their faces and water on their toes...
...slosh of athletes' feet through prophylactic baths in U.S. clubs, schools, gymnasiums, swimming pools, and above all in Army camps, is not only "illogical and probably serves no useful purpose but is potentially harmful." This radical reversal of medical teaching comes from three expert dermatologists (Drs. Marion Sulzberger and Rudolf Baer of New York City's Montefiore Hospital and Dr. Rudolph Hecht of the University of Illinois). It is based on their observations of the last decade, as confirmed by 88 other U.S. skin specialists...