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...fine crease of is grey flannel trousers, moving his foot until the cuff rested properly on the laces of his shoe. He tugged at his shirt a bit until the cuff made the correct distance from the end of is coat sleeve. He measured the distance with a crooked thumb. Then he moved his head up and down until his shirt collar fell snugly beneath his Adams-apple. He glanced at himself in the glass of a picture. It was fine...
...combat as a divisional psychiatrist, Dr. Maskin found that the time-consuming techniques of psychiatry had no place amid the rush of war. The psychiatrist had to improvise rules of thumb, apply them quickly and uncritically. He made enormous concessions to the basic military problem of cowardice and took a hardhearted view of most soldiers who complained of "nervousness." In fact he discovered that some neuroses are perhaps desirable. "Resentment can be a militarily useful frame of mind despite its personal painfulness. Frustrate and goad a man sufficiently and he will become indifferent to his own fate and ignore...
...used to transmute the human species. While they were about it, suggested Mrs. Luce, let's transmute all women into Lana Turners. As for the male prototype: "a very large head, one eye, an ear bent permanently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign checks and documents, no legs, and a very large bottom to sit in a swivel chair...
...Manhattan's Central Park (TIME, May 27), tried to go fishing and walked into an explosion. At Greenport, L.I., the portly comedian and Son Robert were tuning up the engines of their cabin cruiser when something exploded. Results: Son Robert, arm and leg burns; Victor, a scratched thumb and little finger, singed hair and eyebrows...
Reckoning. In Portland, Ore., Carl Peterson sent the city a $6.80 bill for repairs on his windshield wiper, thrice damaged by thumb-handed cops tucking parking tickets under...