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American girls from the audience served as scented guinea pigs. Sure enough, the same essence on three different skins smelled differently to G.I. judges. Labourdette put some on my hand. A G.I. smelled and passed judgment: "On you it stinks." Whereupon, we all had some champagne and the party broke up bubbling with good will...
...tiny, encysted worms can live in the muscles of bears, dogs, birds, cats, guinea pigs, monkeys, rabbits, horses and cattle. But they much prefer hogs, rats and men. Once in the muscles, the worms are there for the life of their victim. Most people who get trichinosis never know it. But one in a hundred has chills, fever, muscle pains until his system gets used to the invaders. Six in 10,000 die of damage to the heart after about a month of painful muscle spasms...
While collecting evidence against Her mann Goring, the war criminal, Allied investigators learned much about Goring, the scientist. Last week they told how he sometimes used Germany's helpless hu man guinea pigs...
Well, things have certainly picked up for us old beat-up, guinea happy, flip chasin', atabrine eatin', female hungry, geisha huntin' G.I.s. I'm writing this by the light of a 200-watt reading lamp, on an oaken writing desk, surrounded by large double windows (with glass in them) and sliding doors. This morning I awoke to find an olive-skinned, black-haired, shy young vision of Oriental loveliness, with broom in hand, busily engaged in giving my room, which I share with only two other liberators, a working over. When she became aware...
Never was a guinea pig more warmly welcomed. For 20 months young Henley lay on his back, while the daring Lister torturously scraped the infected foot bones with antisepticized instruments. To the general astonishment, gangrene failed to set in. When the scraping was successfully finished, the patient sat up and called for pencil and paper. Soon the editor of London's Cornhill Magazine began publishing Henley's In Hospital-a series of poems which concluded with the now-famed Invictus...