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Preaching the word in North Korea, Pang Wha II, Presbyterian minister, felt the Communist wrath for the first time in 1945. World War II was barely ended when the Reds drove him from his little parish in Sinuiji at the Yalu. He moved southwest of Pusan. There, in 1948, a gang of South Korean Communists went after him. Hiding in his house, he listened helplessly as the rioters beat his wife for refusing to tell where he was. They beat her until her eyes grew blank, until she could remember nothing but would thenceforth sit all the day staring...
...trying to work out close behind the front. He is already looking eagerly at the next great, unexplored territory: the influence of psychological factors on surgical patients, e.g., what are the differences in response between patients operated on after long illnesses and those who have suffered sudden injury? Wha difference does it make if a soldier is wounded as soon as he goes into combat, or after long months of action and exhaustion...
Sooth is a tale of the occult, its hero a colored roustabout seaman fleeing the violent end predicted for him by a "conjuh-woman." He switches from ship to ship and alias to alias. But always he hears the words of the soothsayer: "Wha'-foh you big teef shinin' to the sky? How come all this heah bullet-blood runnin' outen yoh skull-pate all oveh the groun...
...Scouts Wha Hae. In Juneau, Alaska, the Red Dog saloon ordered another printing of its song sheet (Behind Those Swinging Doors) to replace copies swiped by local Boy Scouts for use at campfire meetings...
What do modern Jews believe? To answer this question briefly for U.S. Christians and for Jews themselves, Rabb Philip Bernstein, president of the Centra Conference of American Rabbis, wrote an article for LIFE last fall. Now expanded and published in book form, with wood cuts by Quaker Fritz Eichenberg, Wha the Jews Believe (Farrar, Straus & Young; $1.25) is a lucid and readable primer of Judaism from a cheerfully humanistic point of view...