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...Chicago street an elderly man upped to a perfect stranger and said: "Pardon me, may I test your blood?" The indignant citizen calmed down when he discovered who his questioner was: Dr. Oliver Clarence Wenger, top-flight syphilologist in the U.S. Public Health Service. This was the latest wrinkle in a much-wrinkled campaign against venereal disease which City and State health departments have been waging for four years...
...Miss It. In Boston, a motorist followed a stranger's directions, wound up driving in a subway tunnel...
...Island politicos for 21 years. But when the war broke out, Quezon was sick. U.S. observers were worried by his silence, his brooding on his yacht, his long rest-cure treatment at the health resort of Baguio in the hills. After his lifelong fight for Philippine independence, it seemed stranger still that he did not respond to the gigantic world struggle for democracy, with all that it meant to the independence of small nations...
...pushed aside by a power that has no other support in heaven or on earth than brute force alone. . . . [Professor Meyers was] one of the greatest lawyers of many countries and many periods. . . . This noble and true son of our nation . . . has been ousted from his post by the stranger who rules over us as our enemy. . . . We can but bow before superior power...
Head of the Paris bureau of the Chicago Tribune when the war broke out, he returned to the U.S. soon after Dunkirk, after twelve years in Europe. Since then he has made a series of U.S. lecture tours, To his stranger's eyes the U.S. had many symptoms of the political disease which he had seen destroy France...