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...LIEUT. JAMES L. STANLEY of Decatur, Ga.: "He was stood at attention for five hours at a time; confined eight days in a doorless cell less than six feet long; held to the ground by two guards while a third kicked and slapped him; stood at attention 22 hours until he fell, then hit while lying down with the side of a hatchet . . . interrogated for three hours with a spotlight six inches from his face, ordered to confess while a pistol was held at the back of his head; placed under a roof drain all night during a rainstorm; left...
...shins left to fester with no medical aid. Three separate times he was dragged about the floor, kicked in the legs and back and almost lifted from the floor by his hair and ears. Once in an effort to open his clasped hands five guards pinned him to his cell wall, hit him repeatedly in the body and forced open his fingers and thumb one by one, whereupon he struck them back...
...diagnosis and treatment of anemia." says Dr. Wintrobe, "depends on an ounce of knowledge, an equal amount of understanding, and a pound of thoroughness." This thoroughness begins with determining the degree of anemia. Ordinary red blood-cell counts, Dr. Wintrobe insists, have a wide margin of error, and the only accurate test is the hematocrit method (his own invention), now being adopted by more and more hospitals...
...party at 22 to fight for a better world. He learned that, for a Communist, it got a lot worse before it got better. A Communist had to like what he was told was good, dislike what he was told was bad, belong to a union and its Communist cell (attending every meeting), join pro-Soviet organizations, turn out for street demonstrations, collect money for party causes, help sell the Worker, proselyte family and friends, if any. There were no holidays. If a comrade's wife complained, he was told: "Recruit her into the party...
...running hard at the first turn. He 1) appointed a commission to investigate the race-track operations, and 2) moved for (and probably will get) the removal of Republican Leader Arthur Wicks of the state senate, who was a five-time caller at Joey Fay's Sing Sing cell. After his investigating commission reports. Dewey is expected to propose new laws to cut down the opportunities for shakedowns at the race tracks and also for labor racketeering anywhere in New York...