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...Another crew, forced down in the wilds of New Guinea, slept in their plane, awoke next morning to find themselves surrounded by little G-strung men who carried wicked three-foot knives. An airman from Coweta, Okla., shivering from dengue fever, and his hale companion from Springfield, Ill. both got good care, found they were among benevolent neutrals. Said one of the natives: "Jap come, we friend him; white man come, we friend...
Food was running out and men were getting leaner on a diet of carabao (water buffalo), cavalry horses and mules, but they stayed on their feet and fought until the burning fever of malaria laid them out. Thousands of prostrated fighting men jammed the field hospitals. Others, listless, weary and sometimes out of their heads hung on with their outfits where they were more liabilities than assets...
Malaria, most widespread and consuming of all human diseases, saps the strength of some 800,000,000 people throughout the world. Although there is no safe drug that directly kills malaria parasites (carried by the Anopheles mosquito), the chills & fever and other symptoms can be controlled by dosing with quinine, made from the bitter bark of the cinchona tree...
Tied to the campus for protection against an epidemic of measles, mumps, and scarlet fever, the Smith girls had grown apprehensive about falling behind on social activities. One committee had already written to assure Freshmen that they would be available for Jubilee dates...
...notably Detroit's Hank Greenberg, Cleveland's Bob Feller, Washington's Cecil Travis, Philadelphia's Sam Chapman-and many another great ballplayer will follow them to war before the season ends. But draft or no draft, U.S. baseball fans were down with their perennial spring fever: trying to dope out how 16 big-league teams will finish in far-off October...