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...time the five-day battle ended, Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army had had its ears pinned back. Advancing with a rush across the Red River, it met deceptively easy going against the Third Army of jug-eared, German-born Lieut. General Walter Krueger. But the Red neck was out. When last week's exercise ended, Ben Lear's army had been backed up against the Red River it had so dashingly crossed. Its flanks had been turned, many of its bridges to safety destroyed, its Armored Force's gasoline supplies captured...
...ministers are studying inferiority complexes and suppressed desires, frustration and the subconscious mind, to put psychiatry to practical use in their pastoral work. Last week 200 of them from all over the country highlighted the trend by winding up Chicago's tenth annual Pastors' Institute with a five-day conference on "Religion and Personality Integration." They wanted to know how they could help parents and children to get along, particularly when they suspected it was the parents' immaturity that was causing the trouble. Where does the minister leave off in premarital counseling and let the physician begin...
...City hospitals plan to treat early cases of syphilis with the five-day arsenic drip method (TIME, April 22, 1940). Since it seems that heavy doses of arsenic compound drain the body's supply of vitamin C, Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has agreed to provide extra fruits and vegetables in an attempt to bolster up a number of reliefers with venereal infections...
...Great A. & P. last year than in earlier years, except John Hartford and his family, who own it. Washington got an extra $2,795,000 in taxes ($7,100,000, up from $4,305,000 the year before). Employes got $4,030,000 more, Eastern Division workers a five-day week...
Jail. In Madison, Wis., a student turned up four days early to serve a five-day sentence for disorderly conduct. Purpose: to get on with his cramming in solitude. In El Paso, a prisoner awaiting trial for trying to smuggle sedatives to inmates got tight on twelve pints of smuggled stimulants. In Philadelphia, a prisoner awaiting trial tried reducing, shed 38 pounds, squeezed through his bars to freedom...