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...best-liked generals-Lieut. General Krueger? We read of "Bradley's Army," "Doolittle's Eighth," "Clark's Fifth," etc. which is well and good, but how about "Krueger's Sixth?" They're in this war too . . . ask the Japs who were in New Guinea...
...Between western New Guinea and the southern Philippines. Principal island: Halmahera...
...weather lands of the South Pacific abound with broad-snouted weevils. The weevils ruin ordinary rice before the men get it. But the Quartermaster's Office can put "converted rice" into any kind of bag, ship it to New Guinea or Saipan and never worry about weevils because the milling process makes each grain so slick and hard the weevil can't make a dent in it. It can be stored indefinitely...
...U.S.C. veterans do not expect the university to turn itself inside out for them. Just a little understanding of their special problems would do, they think. For instance, 27-year-old Walter Piper, who wears a black glove because he lost his right arm on New Guinea, wishes some of his professors would not be so impatient with his slow note-taking. His left hand is not yet very handy with a pencil. And 21-year-old Marvin Niles, who is slow too, wishes the professor would remember that the German land mine which shredded and scarred...
...From Rio de Janeiro last fortnight came a report of a sensational new serum, "sutulina," said to have cured guinea pigs and one human patient of T.B. The Chilean and Brazilian doctors who developed it admitted their experiments were in an early stage. U.S. experts awaited further details...