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Thus ended one of the strangest episodes in the strange career of World War II censorship. If it was true, as the Tribune said in its story, that the information about the Japanese dispositions came from naval intelligence, the story may have given away a Navy secret. But the jury apparently accepted the explanation of Editor Maloney and Reporter Johnston that they had doped out the whole story in the Tribune office...
...strangest of children's diseases is celiaca, a lingering intestinal ailment which produces diarrheaandmuscular weakness, stunts growth for several years. Victims of celiaca cannot utilize fats and carbohydrates; most sugars ferment in their intestines, cause enormous distention of the abdomen...
Musine Diastole. This roster of rodentry was cited last week by Zoologist Charles Elton of Oxford University. In his 496-page study, Voles, Mice and Lemmings (Oxford; $10), Zoologist Elton investigates one of nature's strangest mysteries-why, all over the planet, hordes of such rodents pop up out of the earth from time to time. Small, silent, fleet, these musine masses scurry tirelessly among the grasses, destroying grain, trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved...
Thus, in this sidewise fashion, one of the strangest incidents in the history of the U.S. press came to general public knowledge: a major scandal had broken and for a fortnight only one paper had published anything about...
...found that their high-school books were right: Australia's fauna was indeed teeming with strange cases of arrested evolution. There, sure enough, were the duck-billed platypus, the kangaroo, the dingo dog. There was another one that the zoology writers had left out. He was the "wowser," strangest beastie of them...