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Last week bright-skied spring bared its first smiles on Britain. Those smiles were sinister. They snatched away winter's ice-laden, cloud cover for convoys plodding across the Atlantic and up the coast of Africa. They spread the horizons and smoothed the swells for Germany's swarm of new submarines. They gave fair weather and good hunting to ocean-ranging bombers...
Yard Cops Swarm...
Last week New Orleans returned the call with an exhibition of Southern U. S. art at the cheerful new International Club Salon in palm-shaded San Salvador. At the show's formal opening, U. S. Minister Robert Frazer, International Railways of Central America Manager Herbert Wilson and a swarm of Cabinet Ministers and bank presidents elbowed some 500 of El Salvador's other leading citizens for a look. Curiously, the most striking items of Southern U. S. art in the show (example: The Red Mill by New Orleans Painter Caroline Wogan Durieux) looked more Latin than...
...something goes wrong with the detaching mechanism by which the disturbed cells turn loose their hooks. Then, instead of immunity, allergic sensitization is set up. Though sprouted in great numbers, the hooks remain attached to the cell. Now the cell is more attractive to foreign proteins than before. They swarm to its hooks like hungry wolves pouncing on beefsteaks. From then on, the person is allergic to that protein...
Last week, amid a swarm of holiday conventions, the U. S. Youth Movement reduced itself to an absurdity. It was a week of earnest debate about war & peace, of quarrels among friends and enemies...