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...years ago Playwright Stallings co-authored the tough, lusty What Price Glory?, the best American play about World War I. The Streets Are Guarded, a play about World War II, tells a fuzzy story about a heroic marine who pulls off a perilous sortie against the Japs. With a fever-ridden fanatically religious pharmacist's mate acting as Greek chorus, it seems throughout to symbolize a modern miracle. But what it says at the end is that such "miracles" are the everyday stuff of soldiering...
Eddie Bracken, a would-be Marine hero, has been discharged from service because of chronic hay-fever, and is working at a war plant near his home town. The home-coming at the railroad station--the mayor orating, crowds cheering, the "hero" trying to get away, bands playing, the poor master of ceremonies tearing his hair as everything goes awry, and everyone (but Eddie) having a wonderful time--is a masterly bit of parody...
...nearer the Army & Navy get to Japan, the more often they encounter tsutsugamushi (Japanese for "dangerous bug fever"). It is also known as scrub typhus, is related to epidemic typhus. Service doctors expect the worst infection in Formosa, Malaya, Japan itself. The disease is carried by the larva of the red mite, Trombicula akamushi, which bites only once, but perhaps fatally-the death rate is 4% to 55%, depending on the virulence of the epidemic. To teach their colleagues about this new danger, Lieuts. (j.g.) Donald S. Farner and Chris P. Katsampes discussed it in the current U.S. Naval Medical...
...much like U.S. chiggers, commonly live in the damp ground around the roots of the 10-to 20-foot kunai grass which covers many Southwest Pacific lowlands. After being bitten, a man usually notices nothing wrong for over a week. Then a sore develops at the bite, followed by fever, headache and swollen glands near the bite. Next come a rash, temperatures up to 105°, restlessness or apathy, perhaps delirium, pneumonia (20% of cases), temporary deafness, constipation, bronchitis, vomiting, heart inflammation. It is severe heart damage which causes most of the deaths. In other cases, the fever drops...
...once Ernie stands still enough to see the static pity of London's East End, and to know Ada's battered desire for security, he gets an angry fever for easy money, goes to work for Gangster Jim Mordinoy (George Coulouris). What he sees and learns under Mordinoy is anything but comforting, and where he finally winds up is not in heroics but in police court...