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...biological world we find the first necessity is to develop an unalterable hate for guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals which it is our business to kill...
...Bride. Down to the Washington, D.C. marriage license bureau went WPB's Office of Civilian Supply. Purpose: To use prospective brides and grooms as guinea pigs, find out what kind of furniture they would like to have in their new homes, so future limitation restrictions can be drawn up to meet as many demands as possible of the nation's heaviest furniture buyers...
...flew missions seven straight days before he was killed in the Celebes. The 19th's own candidate for the Medal of Honor is Captain Harl Pease of Plymouth, N.H. During the height of the Solomons battle, Captain Pease insisted on taking off with his squadron from a New Guinea field, though he had had only three hours' rest from his previous mission. Despite an attack by 30 Japanese Zeros, several of which he shot down, Captain Pease made his run over the target. En route home his plane caught fire and was last seen plummeting toward the Coral...
...Guinea, remote, mysterious General MacArthur managed to retain complete privacy where even Australian and U.S. nurses had to glance aside lest they blush at the spectacle of grimy soldiers bathing in the nude under roadside showers. One U.S. soldier, seeing the General one morning before breakfast, ran back to his comrades, exclaimed: "He was under the trees in a pink silk dressing gown with a black dragon on the back...
This book is a discussion of the U.S. future written by an anthropologist-Margaret Mead, author of Growing Up in New Guinea, Sex & Temperament. Says Miss Mead: "This is not an attempt to take off Americans' clothes. ... It is an attempt to say: In the last 17 years I have been practicing a certain way of looking at peoples. I bring it ... to you ... at this moment when no American can escape the challenge to use what special or accidental skills...