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...doctor should think twice before prescribing absolute quiet in bed-it may kill his patient. This astonishing thesis was the subject of a Cornell Medical College conference on therapy, reported last week in the New York State Journal of Medicine. Said outspoken Dr. William Dock, Cornell pathology professor, leading off the discussion: "Absolute bed rest kills more patients than anesthesia and all the drugs in the pharmacopoeia added together." Yet doctors prescribe it and medical texts give no warning of its dangers...
...Landing Ship, Dock), a 450-ft. floating dock for use after assault (the first picture of the completed ship was released last week...
...ship of many nicknames. In 14 days of continuous air attack at Malta she was pierced with some 2,000 bomb fragments; her admiring crew promptly dubbed her "H.M.S. Pepperpot." After the worst holes were plugged with planks, they added another: "H.M.S. Porcupine." While she was alongside a Malta dock, bomb hits on shore threw so much debris around her decks that for a time she became "H.M.S. Rockgarden...
...Allies held Salerno, but they also had on their hands the King and Marshal Badoglio. The Italian fleet came over. Militarily the Allies gained some advantage by having Italian troops help out as dock workers, as railway and bridge guards. But the Allied command miscalculated when it expected the Italian armies -beaten, demoralized and wanting only to go home to their families-to be useful as combat troops. They, like the people of Italy, wanted only peace and food...
...Muir technique ignores Henry Kaiser and other bigwigs. Instead, she runs such shipyard society notes as a swap offer found on the wall of a dock men's room: "One wedding ring (unused) for a pair of boxing gloves." It was Jean Muir who discovered the swarming Braukmiller family-15 members working in the yards and averaging $996 a week (TIME, July 26). A national contest of welderettes was partly her doing...