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Cigarets. At cigaret-smoking dentists Dr. Isador Hirschfeld of Manhattan stared reprovingly. Cigaret smoking, he stated, has a deleterious effect on the tissues of the mouth, predisposing them to "trench mouth" (Vincent's Disease). He linked together the recent increase of this infectious disease with the increase of U. S. cigaret smoking (8,000,000,000 cigarets in 1910; 97,000,000,000 in 1927). Women cigaret smokers, according to him, are falling sick in more & more numbers. Kissing spreads the disease. But more usual than smoking or kissing as predisposing causes are fatigue, systemic disease, dental irregularities, insufficient...
...contributed to the Nobile Saga, last week, another and still more bizarre account of how he and Captain Zappi left the Swedish scientist Dr. Finn Malmgren to die upon the Arctic ice (TIME, Aug. 6). Said Mariano: "When the unavoidable separation from Malmgren came and we dug him a trench we told him we would halt 100 yards away and wait there twenty-four hours in case he changed his mind and considered himself able to continue. We did this, and when we saw him, on one occasion, lift his head we shouted, 'Come on, Malmgren.' He shook...
Orinoco. When a Piarros Indian (the tribe, head hunters, live near the upper waters of the Orinoco River) becomes sick, his fellows scoop him a trench and there they stretch him with food and water. If he recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far, they are lazy. If he dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible...
...sons, Paul Jr. (now at Hotchkiss School), and William (entering Hotchkiss next year). Perhaps never was he so proud of them as last September, when "Rudy," their favorite fox terrier, unhappily demised. Down by the golf course went Paul and William with the remains of Rudy. They dug a trench and raised a headstone. They inscribed: "He left us." Publisher Block likes to walk, puffing ever so slightly, from the house to the headstone. It is proof to him that his sons are absorbing friendship...
...SACRIFICE-Fritz von Unruh-Knopf ($2.50). Son of a German general, Fritz von Unruh was commissioned in 1916 to write something that would improve regimental morale. When he submitted the manuscript of the present volume the General Staff declared him insane. Way of Sacrifice is a mad medley of trench mud, footsore soldiers' nightmares, barbwire hallucinations, macabre fears, and philosophic outbursts, synthesized into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that...