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...latest offerings at the University are not going to win any Academy Awards, but they have this virtue--if you can somehow manage to avoid the newsreel, they will provide three hours of uninterrupted laughs that -- unlike Pearl Harbor, Singapore, et al--are not on you. "Design for Scandal" is in the familiar pattern of sophisticated dialogue comedy; "Rise and Shine" recalls the Joe College musicals of several years ago. Yet both move along briskly, boast a few new twists, and are unpretentiously slap-happy--a pleasant relief from war bulletins and the topheavy sagas of Bogart, Scott or Lynn...
Places which it would probably be best to avoid now are the Dartmouth Region and Cannon Mountain, both in New Hampshire. Only nine inches of snow was reported for the Dartmouth Region with the temperature at 18 degrees, while at Cannon Mountain there is plenty of snow, but it is almost entirely frozen granular...
...sometimes spells his name Tsiang to avoid being accused of nepotism...
...treatment to avoid gas gangrene has been developed by Lieut. Colonel Frank Scozzari Adamo. He cleans wounds with hydrogen peroxide, which liberates oxygen, kills gas-forming bacteria, unable to live in air. Then he opens the wounds wide, slitting the muscles longitudinally and exposing a large area to the air, so that the gas germs cannot breed. The slit muscles heal easily. By this "conservative surgery" Surgeon Adamo claims to have saved a large number of arms and legs...
...Nemattanon learned the ways of the Spanish hidalgos, but returned to Virginia to protect his tribe from plundering, torture and slavery which the Spanish high-mindedly practiced. Despite their irreconcilable views, there was a grudging affection and respect between Menendez and Nemattanon, and they managed with some effort to avoid killing each other...