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...swimming pool at the famed old Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, paralyzed men exercise their flaccid limbs. In the wards, men with legs scarred by vein surgery and men with tantalum plates in their skulls read books on diesel engines, cattle raising, soil conservation. (They cheerfully show their wounds to anyone willing to look.) In the recreation hall, some of the wounded watch the Army training film Baptism of Fire and hear the day's war news. A man in the occupational-therapy department is absorbed in making a set of four-leaf-clover buttons of clay...
Charlie gets away with a candid vein of comment which is unprecedented in radio. Via a small-boy character (which helps), Bergen manages a titillating form of malice-without-malice. To judge by his audiences, it is all hugely satisfying to the U.S. public. Charlie called Gossipist Louella Parsons an "old blabbermouth," while confiding in an aside that "everything will be all over town tomorrow." He referred to Emily Post as "a vulture for culture" and dismissed her with: "It's been a charming evening. By the way, Miss Emily, you don't have a toothpick...
...Harold Ickes lit into Dewey in characteristic vein. "Four years ago,"he cracked, "I observed that Mr. Dewey had thrown his diaper into the ring. At Los Angeles on Friday night, when he upbraided the New Deal for not being New Dealish enough, he threw the sponge after his diaper...
...Streptothricin can be given by vein, injection under the skin, or by mouth...
...London's Tribune was moved to a Wellsian note by a rumor that a German super-rocket bomb, launched two weeks ago, had not yet been heard from. Said the Tribune, in interplanetary vein: "If that world [hit by the runaway rocket] happens to be inhabited by people who have reached our own level of 'civilization,' they may regard it as an act of hostility. . . .Are we on the eve of war between worlds before we have got ourselves tidied up on earth...