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When reading the article "The Crisis" in your last issue, I had the sensation of a sharp, lightning pain, as from the sudden touching of a sore tooth, for which we had swallowed pills instead of facing the dentist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Walter and the others on Rube had been plenty sore when people claimed there never was any such hero as Reuben James. That was when they named destroyer 607 (laid down at San Francisco last July) Daniel Frazier. Some scholar had dug into the books and found that the Rube James yarn was a phony; that the name of the hero who saved Stephen Decatur was really Daniel Frazier, and that was why the Department called 607 the Daniel Frazier. The boys on Rube refused to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Reuben James to Davy Jones | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Sore Throat to Weak Heart. Rheumatic fever usually occurs after a streptococcal infection of the nose or throat. Warned Dr. Swift: "Watch tonsillitis! The average case requires up to six weeks of rest and medical care." But, he added, "there is no evidence to show that removing infected tonsils removes the possibility of rheumatic fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Red Plague | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Prominent as a sore thumb on the fumbling fist of the U.S. war effort was the Bossert Co., Inc. of Utica, N.Y. last week. The Bossert Co., which in peacetime makes steel stampings, has been humming 20 hours a day, turning out an order of 1,000,000 cases for 75-mm. artillery shells. So fast did it turn out its brass cases that other plants fell behind in providing the other parts. From the U.S. Army came a strange command: slow up. Bossert Co. went back to an eight-hour day until further notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Fast | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...slapped the proprietor's face and everybody ended up in Night Court. ∙∙Tobacco Road's longtime Jeeter Lester, James Barton, was arrested by the S.P.C.A. charged with letting nine of his dogs live like the Lesters-mangy, flea-and fly-bitten, sore-splotched, in a "filthy and unclean kennel" in Garden City Park, L.I. His wife Katherine explained: Jim picks up strays; most of the animals are 12 to 14 years old, several are blind, they have a naturally neglected look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Dog House | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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