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...referring, of course, to the now world-famous experiments of Edwin J. Cohn '17, head of the Department of Physical Chemistry, who has led the way in one of Harvard's most conspicuous contributions to the war. Professor Cohn has discovered to date 20 unknown substances in human blood which have opened new vistas in plastics and military medicine...
...before he flew back from Moscow to London (TIME, Aug. 14), Premier Mikolajczyk asked correspondents if they could tell him who one of the negotiators from Chelm was: a man named Boleslaw Berut. Mikolajczyk had never heard of Berut before. Last week the Lublin government announced that the practically unknown Communist was now President of Poland. His appointment disregarded the fact that Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz has been President in Exile of Poland since October 1939. It also raised the Polish problem to a new boiling point. Plainly Moscow had decided that it was time for the Lublin Poles...
...that we won't beat the Navy." Lieut. Colonel Blaik concentrated on speed and deception, continually talked "muzzle velocity" to his backs, who will run from the "T" more often than last year. Besides newcomer Dean Sensanbaugher, brilliant Ohio State back, West Point has Doug Kenna, its wonderful unknown; if he finally struts his stuff (he broke an arm in practice in '42, cracked a knee last year), Army's backfield will go places and do things. But Blaik still has his line - and Navy - to worry about...
Sense without Sensibility. Martha Foley, onetime editor of Story magazine, has edited the perennial Best Short Stories since the death of Editor Edward J. O'Brien in 1941. The 30 stories in her 1944 collection (mostly written by relatively unknown authors) rate pretty high on common sense, low on imagination and passion. Most impressive: Of This Time, of That Place, by Biographer-Critic Lionel Trilling (Matthew Arnold; E. M. Forster), a Columbia University English instructor. Author Trilling's caustic, moving account of the clash between a kindly but red-taped professor and a brilliant but irrational student...
...study maps and practice jumping off landing boats; but when . . . a Salerno comes along, they fly out of their boats into the uncertain darkness ahead and refuse to jump, or jump ashore and [then] jump back . . . and have to be exhorted by chaplains to advance into the unknown...