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Here you will find that we have partly used your article on General Brereton's airborne army (TIME, Aug. 21). You must excuse us if we have infringed your printing rights and our sending this letter in carbon copy. As you will understand, we have to avoid the imprint of letters of this kind on our typewriter ribbons. Four years of fighting the Gestapo have taught us to be careful. Our press and readers thank you for all the good stuff you have given us, and we would like you to bring this greeting to your readers...
...want me to go on with this job, please keep it from being so tough. I'm not a sissy, God." Joe's incredible reception everywhere just about bowled him over - until he came to understand the G.I.s' "days of monotony, each one a carbon copy of the day before." The G.I.s were so starved for laughs that they would ignore any thing to see him open his famous trap...
...took notes calmly, feeling little emotion. It was all so cold and bare. I wrote: "There are four chambers fed with these small, innocent, pale blue Zyklon crystals which give off cyanide when exposed to air. Two extra chambers for plain carbon monoxide. Maximum simultaneous capacity: 2,000." Kudriavtsev was still explaining: "On one day, Nov. 3, 1943, they annihilated 18,000 people?Poles, Jews, political prisoners and war prisoners...
Under the stress of tiring work or a shortage of oxygen, the cortex (outer layer) of the kidneys' adrenal glands secretes unusual amounts of certain hormones known as 17-ketosteroids (containing one oxygen and 17 carbon atoms). They are discharged in the urine. The investigators discovered that the output of ketosteroids (and of urine) rose in direct proportion to fatigue and loss of efficiency. There was wide variation among individuals; those with the greatest stamina showed the smallest secretion of ketosteroids...
...vacation! In order that the public doesn't get cold to his style while he's resting up from "Lassic Comes Home," Twentieth Century Fox, Shirley Temple's studio, has come up with a substitute, Lonnie MacCallister by name, and has filmed a heart warming, technicolored-trotting-race-carbon copy of the MacDowell pattern...