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...hundred years after the flood of British sea power drowned Holland as a first-class nation, hardworking, stubborn Dutchmen have at least succeeded in reclaiming a well-diked reputation as leading producers of tulips and cheese: But Dutch literature, which even at its high point, in the time of Erasmus and Spinoza, was always Holland's lowest point below sea level, remains almost wholly unreclaimed. Last week two Dutch novels stood out as new patches of dry land...
Reason for this optimism was that, after weeks of excruciatingly slow progress by naval and land forces up the valley of the broad, brown Yangtze, Japanese troops suddenly knifed through stubborn Chinese defense lines and penetrated to Wusueh, on the north bank of the Yangtze, only 80 crow miles from their goal. In Hankow, Chinese military heads, preparing for a last-ditch stand, ordered evacuation of 20,000 women to facilitate defense of the area, and by week's end 1,000 of them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from...
...classic criminal trial in the U. S. is one like that of the late Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a bitter battle of wits in which a prosecutor, inch by inch, weaves a damning web of evidence around a stubborn, close-mouthed defendant. Another kind of criminal trial, hitherto associated with Moscow, was last week proceeding in Manhattan. In it members of a conspiracy stumbled over themselves in their eagerness to confess dastardly deeds, while the only alleged conspirator who did not admit guilt looked as though he could hardly believe his ears...
...most stubborn of California's public health problems is the high incidence of coccidioidomycosis ("valley fever," "desert fever") among farmhands, sheepherders and oil workers of the San Joaquin Valley. Although coccidioidomycosis was first recognized in 1893, it was not until last June that a complete picture of the course of the disease was presented to physicians. Last week, at the San Francisco meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists, Dr. Ernest Charles Dickson of Stanford Medical School, pioneer worker in valley fever, gave the first public, comprehensive account of the disease he had studied for 20 years...
Latest and most unusual treatment for the bleeding is the application of fresh human milk to stubborn wounds. Two young Ohio physicians, Dr. Lester Stepner of Cincinnati and Dr. Sol Taplits of New Richmond, applied the milk to two hemophiliacs, stopped severe cases of bleeding in a short time with only a few ounces of milk. "More research work is needed to isolate and identify the [bloodclotting] principle in human milk," said plump Dr. Stepner last week. "I think it is an autacoid [hormone]. . . . Dr. Taplits thinks it is an enzyme...